US Patent Issued to Airbus Ltd. Operations on June 30 for "Method of applying ice removal fluid to a folding wing aircraft and method of operating a folding wing aircraft" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,376, issued on June 30, was assigned to Airbus Ltd. Operations (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Method of applying ice removal fluid to a folding wing aircraft and method of operating a folding wing aircraft" was invented by Olivier Belsbois (Bristol, Great Britain), Keith Agmen (Bristol, Great Britain) and Timothy Clark (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of applying an ice-removal fluid (113) to a folding wing aircraft (100) is described, the method comprising applying the ice-removal fluid (113) to the folding wing portion (103) and holding the folding wing portion in an over-folded position (111) once the ic...