ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,034, issued on July 29, was assigned to Airbus Operations S.L.U. (Getafe, Spain).

"Conditioning fuel system for an auxiliary power unit of an aircraft" was invented by Carlos Casado Montero (Getafe, Spain) and Pablo Manuel Calderon Gomez (Getafe, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft conditioning system including a fuel tank, including an outlet connected to an Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) fuel inlet, configured to maintain a pressurized gas fuel, a pressure regulator, downstream of the fuel tank, configured to regulate a pressure of the pressurized gas fuel injected to the APU inlet, a first temperature sensor downstream of...