US Patent Issued to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES on June 3 for "Air inlet of a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion assembly for promoting a thrust phase and a reverse thrust phase, and method for using same" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,314, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Air inlet of a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion assembly for promoting a thrust phase and a reverse thrust phase, and method for using same" was invented by Yacine Cheraga (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Daniel-Ciprian Mincu (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air inlet of a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion assembly assembly comprising an inner wall and an outer wall which are connected upstream by an air inlet lip. The air inlet lip comprising thick portions and thin portions distributed alternately over the circumference of the air inlet ...