US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on Aug. 11 for "Integration of an ice protection system and an ice detector into a single line replaceable unit" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,489, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Integration of an ice protection system and an ice detector into a single line replaceable unit" was invented by Matthew Hamman (Fairview Park, Ohio), Galdemir Botura (Copley, Ohio), Rohan Chabukswar (Cork, Ireland), El Hassan Ridouane (County Cork, Ireland) and Giancarlo Gelao (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated ice detector and ice protection system is provided. The integrated ice detector and ice protection system includes an electric resistance heater element layer, a sensing element, and at least one second electrically insulative ...