US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Nov. 3 for "Aircraft comprising at least one tubular tank for storing an extinguishing fluid" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,413, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft comprising at least one tubular tank for storing an extinguishing fluid" was invented by Vincent Mazars (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft with a fuselage separated into an upper part and a lower part by a floor, a tubular tank containing an extinguishing fluid, positioned in the upper part and fastened to the floor, a discharge device connected between the tubular tank and the outside, passing in succession through the floor and the fuselage, a release system movable between a retention position and a discharge positio...