ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,197, issued on April 14, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Electric cable equipped with at least one spacer, aircraft comprising at least one such electric cable" was invented by Gerard Millet (Toulouse, France) and Vincent Delpy (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric cable configured to be mounted in an aircraft. This electric cable includes at least one spacer at least partially surrounding a part of the electric cable and making it possible to hold it at a distance greater than a minimum segregation distance from any other element. According to one configuration, the electric cable c...