US Patent Issued to SAFRAN NACELLES on Feb. 10 for "Air intake lip of an aircraft engine nacelle, comprising at least one infrared emission source" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,421, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAFRAN NACELLES (Gonfreville-l'Orcher, France).

"Air intake lip of an aircraft engine nacelle, comprising at least one infrared emission source" was invented by Patrick Gonidec (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Jean-Paul Rami (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an air intake lip of an aircraft engine nacelle extending along an axis X, in which an air flow circulates from upstream to downstream, the lip extending annularly about the X-axis and having an inner wall facing the X-axis and an outer wall which is opposite the inner wall, the inner wall and the...