US Patent Issued to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing on Feb. 17 for "Aerospace component joints for aircraft and related methods" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,515, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing Co. (Mannassas, Va.).

"Aerospace component joints for aircraft and related methods" was invented by Jens Bold (Munich), Bruno Miguel Costa Moniz (Lucerne, Switzerland), Angelo Esposito (Adligenswil, Switzerland) and Fernando Ricardo C. Leite (Lucerne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The aerospace component joints comprise a first component member comprising a first bonding face, a second component member comprising a second bonding face, one or more bond-enhancing features, and an adhesive layer forming a bond between the first ...