ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,769, issued on May 12, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
"Transmission loss panel for aircraft cabin noise and thermal treatment" was invented by Julian Winkler (Glastonbury, Conn.), Brian E. St. Rock (Andover, Conn.), Maxime Dempah (Atlanta), Thomas Martz (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Matthew R. Pearson (Hartford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle panel includes two sidewalls and a resonator disposed between them on one of the cell walls. The resonator includes a network of cells, each cell defines an internal space to absorb and dissipate noise and vibrations within a specific frequency range. Certai...