ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,399, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to JetZero Inc. (Long Beach, Calif.).
"Aircraft component with structural foam" was invented by Blaine Knight Rawdon (Riverside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft component including a structural foam having a predetermined shape, an outer flange located near a first end of the structural foam, an inner flange located near a second end of the structural foam, a web skin encapsulating the inner flange and at least a portion of the structural foam wherein the structural foam is affixed to the web skin, wherein the aircraft component comprises a portion of a blended wing body aircraft (...