ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,202, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Airbus Operations Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Applicator" was invented by James Clough (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An applicator for applying an adhesive film to a surface of an aircraft component includes an adhesive inlet for receiving adhesive from a source of adhesive, adhesive outlets for dispensing of adhesive therethrough, one or more reservoirs for receiving adhesive from a respective adhesive outlet, channels wherein at least two of the channels are configured to facilitate delivery of adhesive from the adhesive inlet to a respective, mutually-different...