US Patent Issued to AEVEX Aerospace on July 14 for "Monolithic and integrally formed hinge structure for an aircraft" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,526, issued on July 14, was assigned to AEVEX Aerospace LLC (Solana Beach, Calif.).

"Monolithic and integrally formed hinge structure for an aircraft" was invented by Salim Adam Roustom (Vienna, Va.) and Hugo Bouvier Schroeder (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, an aircraft assembly is described. The aircraft assembly can include an airfoil structure, which can extend in a chordwise direction from a leading edge to a trailing edge and can include a first component having one or more hinge loops. The first component can have one or more hinge loops that include a fir...