US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS on June 10 for "Aircraft provided with an engine and an exhaust duct around an exhaust nozzle of the engine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,527, issued on June 10, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane, France).

"Aircraft provided with an engine and an exhaust duct around an exhaust nozzle of the engine" was invented by Guillaume Legras (Velaux, France), Philippe Pinto (Saint-Chamas, France) and Christophe Albertini (Septemes les Vallons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust duct configured to be arranged around an exhaust nozzle of an engine, the exhaust duct having a plurality of sections. The sections are circular between an inlet section and an outlet section, with the exception of the sections of a deformed segment, each section of the deformed s...