ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,108, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Method for manufacturing a structural element for a fuselage of an aircraft" was invented by Scott Clair (Hamburg, Germany), Andreas Jespersen (Hamburg, Germany), Paul Jorn (Hamburg, Germany) and Norbert Heltsch (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a structural element for a fuselage of an aircraft. To improve the manufacture of structural elements, a method includes laying up textile material members on a mandrel to form a plurality of structural element preforms that are space apart along an extended direction ...