US Patent Issued to Goodrich on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods for an ice runback control zone in an electrothermal ice protection system" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,186, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Goodrich Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for an ice runback control zone in an electrothermal ice protection system" was invented by Brandon Hein (Kent, Ohio), Casey M. Slane (Tallmadge, Ohio) and Galdemir C. Botura (Copley, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft wing may comprise an airfoil having deicing zone, an anti-icing zone, and an ice runback control zone. An aircraft wing may comprise an electro-thermal ice protection system disposed in the aircraft wing. The electro-thermal ice protection system may be disposed along the deicing, anti-icing, and ice runback co...