US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Sept. 2 for "Method for managing the configuration of an aircraft alternately comprising tail cones incorporating or not at least one auxiliary power unit or not, aircraft and device making it possible to implement said method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,001, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Method for managing the configuration of an aircraft alternately comprising tail cones incorporating or not at least one auxiliary power unit or not, aircraft and device making it possible to implement said method" was invented by Pierre Dourel (Toulouse, France) and Benoit Cazor (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing at least one aircraft configured to alternately occupy a first configuration suitable for a first flight category not requiring any auxiliary power unit and a second configuration suitable for a second flig...