ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,689, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAFRAN AEROSYSTEMS (Plaisir, France).
"Method for determining characteristics of a fuel supplied to an aircraft engine" was invented by Sylvain Hauzeray (Plaisir, France) and Gilles Delaitre (Plaisir, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On board an aircraft, a method is perform in which the following steps are implemented in the following order: measuring a first density value, a first dielectric constant value and a first temperature value of the fuel at a first time, measuring a second density value, a second dielectric constant value and a second temperature value of the fuel, determining pa...