US Patent Issued to Airbus on June 2 for "Modular system for storing and jettisoning fluid and aircraft provided with such a system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,658, issued on June 2, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France).

"Modular system for storing and jettisoning fluid and aircraft provided with such a system" was invented by Jean-Loup Thiers (Toulouse, France) and Samuel Burgunder (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular water storing and jettisoning system which can be easily introduced into and removed from a host firefighting aircraft. To that end, the water storing and jettisoning system for a host aircraft comprises a fluid tank and at least one tube. The tank is connected to said tube or to all of said tubes which extend(s) longitudinally from the tank such t...