ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,218, issued on June 23, was assigned to LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE TOULOUSE SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Suspension pylon for an aircraft engine fitted with a counterflow cooling exchanger" was invented by Didier Ricard (Toulouse, France) and Florian Bonnivard (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an aircraft pylon comprising a cooling exchanger (10) with counterflow of a flow of hot primary air (22) by a flow of cold secondary air (24) flowing oppositely to each other in a longitudinal direction (L), characterized in that it comprises two bundles (10a, 10b) juxtaposed on both sides of a central axis (12) and ...