ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,366, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft having a dihydrogen transport pipe and a system for extracting said dihydrogen to the outside" was invented by Jerome Milliere (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft comprising a dihydrogen transport pipe, a pipe shroud around the transport pipe, a dihydrogen tank, a chamber delimiting a fluidtight volume containing a system fluidically connected to the transport pipe which joins the pipe shroud through a chimney, an extraction chamber into which the chimney and the pipe shroud open, and a device for extracting to the out...