US Patent Issued to MTU Aero Engines on Feb. 24 for "Aircraft having a fuel cell and method for operating a fuel cell of an aircraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,250, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MTU Aero Engines AG (Munich).

"Aircraft having a fuel cell and method for operating a fuel cell of an aircraft" was invented by Stephan Lellek (Garching, Germany) and Jan Hagert (Alling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft having a fuel cell (20) and an air supply device (30) for supplying air for operating the fuel cell (20) and for cooling a heat exchanger (21) connected to the fuel cell (20), the aircraft (1) having at least one air duct (10) whose cross section widens in the direction of flow (5) of the air downstream of an air inlet opening (11) in at least one region (35) o...