ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,928, issued on April 29, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Compressed air supply system" was invented by Hiroaki Takami (Kobe, Japan), Naoya Sekoguchi (Kobe, Japan), Katsuhiko Ishida (Kobe, Japan), Kenta Umezaki (Kobe, Japan), Hiroshi Sakamoto (Kobe, Japan) and Tatsuhiko Goi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressed air supply system that extracts compressed air from a gas turbine engine and supplies the compressed air to an air conditioning pack of an airframe. The compressed air supply system includes: a low-pressure bleed air port that extracts compressed air from an upstream side of a high-pressu...