US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on May 13 for "Extinguishing device for fitting on the housing of an electrical unit, on a monument in the cabin of an aircraft or in a cavity in the structure of an aircraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,208, issued on May 13, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Extinguishing device for fitting on the housing of an electrical unit, on a monument in the cabin of an aircraft or in a cavity in the structure of an aircraft" was invented by Yener Palit (Hamburg, Germany) and Klaus-Udo Freitag (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extinguishing device for an electrical unit on an aircraft cabin monument or in an aircraft structure cavity, a combination of a holder and an extinguishing device and systems formed by extinguishing devices and a control unit and by combinations of an extinguishing device an...