ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,145, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Aircraft fuel system" was invented by Michael Joseph Murray (Wyoming, Ohio) and Victor Moreno Patan (Queretaro, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft fuel system includes a first fuel storage tank arranged to store a first fuel, a fuel oxygen reduction unit arranged to generate a deoxygenated fuel from the first fuel, and a second fuel storage tank arranged to store the deoxygenated fuel generated by the fuel oxygen reduction unit, and being arranged to supply the deoxygenated fuel to an engine."

The patent was filed on Nov. 29, 2022, und...