US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Aug. 5 for "Propulsion system of an aircraft, having an asymmetrical nacelle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,997, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Propulsion system of an aircraft, having an asymmetrical nacelle" was invented by Pascal Gougeon (Toulouse, France), Alexandre Bellanger (Toulouse, France) and Simon Vanderbauwede (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system fastened to one side of an aircraft and having a longitudinal axis and a mid-plane and having a nacelle with two inner cowls, two outer cowls, two lower structural elements and two upper structural elements, wherein each outer cowl is articulated on a pylon by hinges with axes parallel to the longitudinal axis...