US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Jan. 13 for "Device for blocking the shut-off of a propulsion engine for aircraft" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,181, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Device for blocking the shut-off of a propulsion engine for aircraft" was invented by Thierry Immordino (Toulouse, France), Guillaume Alix (Toulouse, France), David Boyer (Toulouse, France), Gilian Antonio (Toulouse, France) and Bilal Guenchi (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blocking device for preventing an inappropriate shut-off of an engine of an aircraft. The blocking device enables by default the actuation of the shut-off unit and receives information representative of an activated or inactivated state of a fuel shut-off lever, o...