US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on July 1 for "Aircraft having an engine and a system for cooling the engine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,383, issued on July 1, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft having an engine and a system for cooling the engine" was invented by Antoine Abele (Toulouse, France) and Maxime Zebian (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft having an engine, a cabin, an air conditioning system collecting the hot air from the engine, so as to treat the hot air, regulate a temperature of the hot air and send the hot air towards the cabin via a main line, an air line channeling the air leaving the cabin, and an arrangement for cooling the engine using the air thus drawn off by the air line. By drawing off ...