US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Sept. 23 for "Method for fastening a part to another part using electrically deformable rivets" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,952, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for fastening a part to another part using electrically deformable rivets" was invented by Matthias Hegenbart (Hamburg, Germany), Hermann Benthien (Hamburg, Germany) and Peter Linde (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for fastening two fiber composite parts to each other with a fastener that includes electroactive polymer material. The parts have an opening within an inner circumferential surface. Fibers protrude from the inner circumferential surface into the opening and interlock with chains of micrograins of the electr...