US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on Sept. 30 for "Connecting assembly for connecting two aircraft structures, aircraft part comprising such assembly, and aircraft" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,163, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Connecting assembly for connecting two aircraft structures, aircraft part comprising such assembly, and aircraft" was invented by Frederic Goupil (Toulouse, France) and Xavier Matheis (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connecting assembly for connecting two structures of an aircraft, the connecting assembly including a central element featuring a through-hole, preferably a bore, configured to make a connection with one of the two structures by virtue of a fastener element including a shank inserted into the through-hole. The connectin...