ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,349, issued on May 6, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Dihydrogen supply system for an aircraft engine" was invented by Pierre-Olivier Martin (Toulouse, France), Lionel Czapla (Toulouse, France) and Mathieu Belleville (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supply system for an aircraft, wherein the supply system has a supply module with outlet pipes, feed pipes connected to dihydrogen tanks, and means for channeling the dihydrogen in the feed pipes towards the outlet pipes, a distribution module having introduction pipes connected to the outlet pipes via heaters, distribution pipes connected to a...