ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,517, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BOMBARDIER INC. (Dorval, Canada).
"Aircraft wing unit with pressure fence" was invented by Michael Murphy (Whitby, Canada), Jack Araujo (Ajax, Canada), Gary Shum (Mississauga, Canada) and George Bradley (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assemblies and methods for facilitating the assembly of aircraft wings to a fuselage are disclosed. In some embodiments, a wing unit includes features that are configured to define one of more parts of a pressure vessel that is partially defined by the fuselage portion. In some embodiments, the aircraft assemblies disclosed herein comprise one or more fir...