US Patent Issued to INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DE L'AERONAUTIQUE ET DE L'ESPACE, SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES on May 20 for "Distributed propulsion with offset propulsion modules" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,569, issued on May 20, was assigned to INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DE L'AERONAUTIQUE ET DE L'ESPACE (Toulouse, France), SAFRAN (Paris) and SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Distributed propulsion with offset propulsion modules" was invented by Patrick Gonidec (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Miguel Angel Aguirre (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Sebastien Duplaa (Pompertuzat, France), Bernard Robic (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Benoit Rodriguez (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Nicolas Jerome Jean Tantot (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion unit including: a gas generator including a compressor, a combustion chamber, a turbine, at...