ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,611, issued on March 24, was assigned to JetZero Inc. (Long Beach, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for venting a fuel tank on a blended wing body aircraft" was invented by Blaine Knight Rawdon (Riverside, Calif.) and Ronald Tatsuji Kawai (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for venting a fuel tank includes a fuel tank on a blended wing body aircraft. A fuel tank may include a vent. A vent line is connected to the vent. The vent line is heated. The vent line is attached to an external fuel tank configured to store the collected boil-off gaseous fuel from the aircraft fuel tank."
The patent wa...