US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Feb. 3 for "System for generating an inert gas for an aircraft using liquid hydrogen" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,772, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"System for generating an inert gas for an aircraft using liquid hydrogen" was invented by Mathieu Belleville (Toulouse, France) and Theophile Horde (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating an inert fluid, the system being carried on board an aircraft, the generation system including a plurality of devices configured each, in succession, to execute a separation of components of a primary fluid initially collected in the form of compressed hot air, the system including at least one heat exchanger configured to execute a sepa...