ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,372, issued on May 5, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France) and Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Propulsion assembly for an aircraft" was invented by Nandakumar Devasigamani (Toulouse, France), Lionel Czapla (Toulouse, France) and Jorge A. Carretero Benignos (Taufkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion assembly having a propulsion system comprising a fairing, a rotary assembly having a combustion chamber and housed in the fairing, an exhaust nozzle positioned downstream of the combustion chamber and delimited by a nozzle wall, and ensuring the discharge of the combustion gases originating from the ...