US Patent Issued to JetZero on Jan. 27 for "Centerbody pressure vessel with an arched compression surface" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,177, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to JetZero Inc. (Long Beach, Calif.).

"Centerbody pressure vessel with an arched compression surface" was invented by Blaine Knight Rawdon (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft structure including an outer mold line skin, one or more frames located on an inner surface of the outer mold line skin having an outer flange attached to an inner surface of the outer mold line skin, a first core filler in contact with the outer flange, an inner flange in contact with the first core filler and a web skin, wherein the web skin and the outer flange encapsulate the inner flange and at ...