US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Oct. 14 for "Lightweight overhead stowage compartment and method of installing the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,472, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Lightweight overhead stowage compartment and method of installing the same" was invented by Felix Helfrich (Hamburg, Germany), Benedikt Kircher (Hamburg, Germany) and Thomas Hoffmeister (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lightweight overhead stowage compartment comprising a self-supporting hull having an open cross-section forming a stowage space and an opening to the stowage space, wherein in a longitudinal direction of the self-supporting hull any section of the self-supporting hull has an open end in the front and rear. The stowage ...