US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations S.L.U., Airbus Operations on May 26 for "Fuel gauging sensing devices" (Spanish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,323, issued on May 26, was assigned to Airbus Operations S.L.U. (Getafe, Spain) and Airbus Operations Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Fuel gauging sensing devices" was invented by David Vicente Oliveros (Getafe, Spain), Javier Ruiz De Pablo (Getafe, Spain) and Chris Wood (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel gauging sensing device for a fuel tank for aircrafts includes an optical fiber harness along the internal surface of the tank, a master optical controller connected to a first terminal of the optical fiber harness, a slave optical controller connected to a second terminal of the optical fiber harness, where...