US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Feb. 17 for "Aircraft, bleed-air systems for aircraft, and methods of providing thrust to aircraft" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,393, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Aircraft, bleed-air systems for aircraft, and methods of providing thrust to aircraft" was invented by Mingxuan Shi (Mukilteo, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bleed-air systems comprise a bleed-air turbine configured to receive at least a first portion of bleed air from a jet engine and deliver it to a cabin, a cabin-exhaust compressor operatively coupled to the bleed-air turbine and configured to receive cabin exhaust air from the cabin, and a cabin-exhaust nozzle configured to receive the cabin exhaust air from the cabin-exhaust compressor. Aircraft comp...