US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Jan. 27 for "Water supply and distribution system on-board an aircraft and method for operating such system with low maintenance effort" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,387, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Water supply and distribution system on-board an aircraft and method for operating such system with low maintenance effort" was invented by Frank Schneider (Hamburg, Germany), Hannes Muller (Hamburg, Germany), Axel Schreiner (Bremen, Germany), Tim Lubbert (Wedel, Germany), Frederik Albers (Ahlerstedt, Germany) and Michael Rempe (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an on-board water supply and distribution system of an aircraft for supplying water includes a central tank, consumer assemblies with a supply device and a...