ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,039, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Aircraft fuel system" was invented by Michael Joseph Murray (Wyoming, Ohio), Victor Moreno Patan (Queretaro, Mexico) and Brandon W. Miller (Middletown, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft fuel system includes a first fuel storage tank arranged to store a first fuel, a second fuel storage tank arranged to store a reduced oxygen fuel, and a fuel tank inerting system arranged to provide a reduced oxygen gas through a fuel contained within the second fuel storage tank to generate the reduced oxygen fuel within the second fuel storage tank. The f...