ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,613, issued on March 24, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Controlling aircraft inerting system" was invented by Matthew Gadd (Bristol, Great Britain) and Adam Fallon (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an inerting system of an aircraft is disclosed. The inerting system feeds inert gas into a fuel tank of the aircraft, the method includes: a) obtaining a location of the aircraft, the location comprising a current location or an expected future location; b) assessing an environmental impact of releasing of fuel vapour at the location obtained in step a); and c...