US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS on Feb. 3 for "Method for automatically controlling an aircraft in the event of a fire in the engine zone and an aircraft" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,977, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane, France).

"Method for automatically controlling an aircraft in the event of a fire in the engine zone and an aircraft" was invented by Arnaud Millet (Pelissanne, France) and Guillaume Dumur (Salon de Provence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an aircraft comprising at least two engines, each engine being arranged in its own engine compartment, each engine being connected to a fuel supply circuit provided with its own fuel supply cut-off for cutting off a fuel supply, the aircraft comprising at least one fire detector in each engine compa...