ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,663, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft having a dihydrogen transport pipe, an embedding channel for said transport pipe and an aeration system for said embedding channel" was invented by Marc Casteran (Toulouse, France), Romain Joubert (Toulouse, France) and Jerome Milliere (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft having at least one dihydrogen transport pipe, an embedding channel with a lower gutter, an aeration aperture with an air inlet collecting external air and at least one supply pipe opening at the air inlet, a control unit, and, for one or more lower gutt...