US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on July 29 for "Aircraft having an engine pylon with a mobile cowl" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,181, issued on July 29, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft having an engine pylon with a mobile cowl" was invented by Olivier Pautis (Toulouse, France), Paolo Messina (Toulouse, France), Jonathan Blanc (Toulouse, France), Thomas Robiglio (Toulouse, France) and Thomas Firmignac (Labege, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft having a fixed structure, an engine pylon, and a cowling system, a slider bearing a rear cowl and able to move in translation from an advanced position to a retracted position, a displacement system having, on either side of a median plane of the engine pylon, a guide as...