ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,206, issued on July 1, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Propulsion assembly for an aircraft" was invented by Lionel Czapla (Toulouse, France) and Remi Amargier (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion assembly having a combustion chamber and a turbine, a nacelle with a front cowl facing the turbine, with a window passing through it, and a rear cowl to the rear of the turbine, a fire barrier between the front cowl and the rear cowl, a dihydrogen supply pipe meandering from the inside of the rear cowl, then in a sealed manner through the fire barrier, then through the window as far as the c...