US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Jan. 20 for "Probe for checking the presence of paramagnetic particles in a tank" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,681, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Probe for checking the presence of paramagnetic particles in a tank" was invented by Patrick Petit (Toulouse, France), Gerard Millet (Toulouse, France), Thierry Lopez (Toulouse, France) and Alexis Monteil (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe for use with a tank having a wall pierced by an orifice and configured to contain a fluid containing paramagnetic particles. The probe comprises a magnet, a displacement system arranged at the orifice to displace the magnet from a capturing position in which the magnet is bathed in the fluid to ...