US Patent Issued to ARIANEGROUP on Oct. 6 for "Hypersonic transport system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,916, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ARIANEGROUP SAS (Les Mureaux, France).

"Hypersonic transport system" was invented by Marco Prampolini (Le Haillan, France), Jean-Philippe Dutheil (Le Haillan, France) and Yoan Boue (Le Haillan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to a hypersonic transport system including: an aircraft which includes a hypersonic lift-to-drag ratio greater than or equal to 2.5, wherein the aircraft includes a secondary propulsion device and position sensors, and wherein the aircraft also includes a variably shaped aerodynamic surface; a main propulsion device which is removabl...