ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,675, issued on June 2, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Assembly for an aircraft, said assembly having a pylon and a reservoir containing an extinguishing agent" was invented by Jerome Baderspach (Toulouse, France), Jean Geliot (Toulouse, France) and Dimitri Garay (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly having a pylon with two side walls provided with apertures, a reservoir for extinguishing agent, a support which has two support elements, wherein each support element has an upwardly facing first bearing face to which the reservoir is fastened, a distal end, and a proximal end fastened by...