ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,482, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).
"Fuel tank for an aircraft" was invented by Frederic Sick (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel tank for an aircraft, including a fuel pumping system which includes a set of hoses, first ends of which are distributed over a lower part of the tank, a manifold to which second ends of the different hoses of the set of hoses are connected as input, an output of the manifold being connected to a fuel pump, a fuel level sensor associated with each hose of the set of hoses and placed in the vicinity of the first end of said hose, and a valve ...