ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,371, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Fuel conditioning system for supplying an aircraft turbine engine, and method of supplying a turbine engine" was invented by Samer Maalouf (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Cyrille Marie Pierre-Alain Lambert (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a conditioning system (SC) for fuel (Q), which is configured to supply an aircraft turbine engine (M) with fuel (Q) from a cryogenic tank (R), the conditioning system (SC) comprising at least one first heat exchanger (31) configured to heat the flow of fuel (Q) to a circulation temperature (Te), at lea...