US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Dec. 30 for "Water supply and distribution system on-board an aircraft and method for operating such system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,865, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Water supply and distribution system on-board an aircraft and method for operating such system" was invented by Frederik Albers (Hamburg, Germany), Hannes Muller (Hamburg, Germany), Frank Schneider (Hamburg, Germany), Michael Rempe (Hamburg, Germany), Tim Lubbert (Hamburg, Germany) and Axel Schreiner (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an on-board water supply and distribution system of an aircraft includes a central water tank, central pump, consumer assemblies each including a supply device to supply water, and a ...