ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,117, issued on June 23, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France) and Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Airport installation including a plurality of dihydrogen storage tanks" was invented by Jean-Philippe Dutheil (Toulouse, France) and Jonathan Landolt (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airport installation including a plurality of types of aircraft in which each aircraft of one type includes a tank containing dihydrogen at a saturation pressure in a first range different from the other first ranges, for each type of aircraft a storage tank at a saturation pressure in a second range associated with the ty...