US Patent Issued to Latecoere on May 27 for "Aircraft door equipped with a system for adjustment in position and method for installing such a door" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,065, issued on May 27, was assigned to Latecoere (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft door equipped with a system for adjustment in position and method for installing such a door" was invented by Jean Francois Ducasse (Miradoux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft door mounted in a fuselage in a reference frame X, Y, Z, having a casing, a door leaf and a support arm enabling the door leaf to be installed and the position thereof to be adjusted relative to the fuselage by a pair of fasteners. Each fastener (10, 40) includes a pivot (16, 46) rotatable about a common axis parallel to the axis Z, a base (13, 43) fastened to the ca...