US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Feb. 10 for "System for recovering gaseous dihydrogen produced in a liquid dihydrogen distribution duct of an aircraft" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,257, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"System for recovering gaseous dihydrogen produced in a liquid dihydrogen distribution duct of an aircraft" was invented by Nandakumar Devasigamani (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for recovering gaseous dihydrogen produced in a distribution duct arranged between a main tank and a dihydrogen consumer device, the distribution duct comprising a pump. The system comprises: an auxiliary tank; a bypass duct, arranged between the distribution duct and the auxiliary tank, downstream of the pump; a valve arranged on the bypass duct; a m...