US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 25 for "Configuration for a LH2 fuel cell aircraft with distributed systems" (California, Ohio, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,602, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Configuration for a LH2 fuel cell aircraft with distributed systems" was invented by Chellappa Balan (Mason, Ohio), Michael F. Stoia (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Charles Aguilar (Arlington, Va.), Drew Christopher Hoffman (Signal Hill, Calif.), Luis Gonzalez (Los Angeles) and Daniel A. Watts (Seal Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft comprises a fuselage, wings connected to the fuselage, engines connected to the wings, and liquid hydrogen tanks. Each engine in the engines comprises a nacelle, an electric motor within the nacelle, a fuel ...