ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,491, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Composite aircraft component with embedded piezoelectric ice protection" was invented by Nathaniel Ching (Hartville, Ohio), Sugumaran Selvaraj (Bangalore, India), Rhushikesh Patil (Bangalore, India), Jin Hu (Cary, N.C.), Galdemir C. Botura (Copley, Ohio) and Shyam Kumar Dattatri (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aircraft ice protection systems and methods include an aircraft component having an internal layer and an external layer, a piezoelectric actuator element embedded within the aircraft component between material of the internal layer and ...