US Patent Issued to AEVEX Aerospace on Aug. 25 for "Additive manufactured wing structure having a plurality of chordwise wing segments" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,571, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AEVEX Aerospace LLC (Solana Beach, Calif.).

"Additive manufactured wing structure having a plurality of chordwise wing segments" was invented by John F. Gundlach (Manassas, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil structure for an aircraft includes at least two components mated together adjacently along a chordwise direction. The at least two components extend in the chordwise direction from a front surface to a back surface, the front surface defines a contour of a leading edge of the airfoil structure, and the back surface defines contour of a trailing edge of the airfoil structure. Each...