ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,228, issued on May 26, was assigned to Airbus Operations Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain), Airbus (S.A.S.) (Blagnac, France) and Airbus Operations (S.A.S.) (Toulouse, France).
"Vent system" was invented by Vikram Singh Mangat (Bristol, Great Britain), Eric Greco (Blagnac, France), Emmanuel Fesselier (Blagnac, France), Pierre Wolf (Toulouse, France) and Haziq Noah (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vent system includes a vent stack for venting a tank fluid from a fuel tank that is external to the vent stack, during fuelling of the fuel tank. The vent stack includes a conduit including a conduit inlet and a conduit ou...