ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,183, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Fuel conditioning system and method configured to power an aircraft turbine engine using fuel from a cryogenic tank" was invented by Pierre-Alain Marie Cyrille Lambert (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Samer Maalouf (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a fuel conditioning system (SC) configured to supply an aircraft turbine engine using fuel (Q) from a cryogenic tank (RC), the conditioning system (SC) comprising at least one pumping turbomachine (1), a first heat exchanger (31) configured to heat the fuel (Q) in the fuel circuit (CQ) by circulating a...