US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on Oct. 7 for "Aircraft wing-pylon connection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,750, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Aircraft wing-pylon connection" was invented by William Tulloch (Bristol, Great Britain) and Pat Broomfield (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft assembly including a wing component and an engine mounting pylon component. The wing component has three fastening locations arranged in a triangle and a plane. The engine mounting pylon component is connected to the wing component by three tension fasteners, wherein each of the tension fasteners passes through a different one of the fastening locations. The wing component co...