ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,235, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France) and Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Electric propulsion assembly comprising at least one electric motor positioned in front of a transmission system, aircraft comprising at least one such propulsion assembly" was invented by Remi Amargier (Toulouse, France), Frederic Vinches (Toulouse, France), Jean-Francois Allias (Toulouse, France), Anthony Roux (Toulouse, France), Norberto Simionato Neto (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Kotaro Fukasaku (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft propulsion system comprising a propeller, a plurality of electr...