ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,371, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Aircraft cooling system and aircraft" was invented by Yuichi Fukuchi (Wako, Japan), Takuya Kubota (Wako, Japan), Hikari Hirayanagi (Wako, Japan) and Azuki Ichikawa (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft cooling system includes: a rotor capable of generating thrust in a vertical direction; a heat generating member disposed below the rotor; a support member (a boom) that supports the heat generating member; a structure (a second fairing) protruding from the support member toward the rotor; and a heat exchanger (a surface heat exchanger) provided in ...