US Patent Issued to SAFRAN NACELLES on March 11 for "Aircraft propulsion unit comprising a nacelle and a turbomachine independently supported by a wing, fuselage or tail element" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,846, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAFRAN NACELLES (Gonfreville-l'Orcher, France).

"Aircraft propulsion unit comprising a nacelle and a turbomachine independently supported by a wing, fuselage or tail element" was invented by Hazem Kioua (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Damien Lemoine (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Pierre-Alain Reboul (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Matthieu Menielle (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion unit for an aircraft, includes a support structure, a nacelle and a turbomachine. The support structure is configured to independently support, on the one hand, the turbomachine and, on the ...