ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,545, issued on May 5, was assigned to RESPONSE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Coventry, R.I.).

"Aircraft liquid containment cell including self-sealing structure" was invented by David Allen Pettey (Portsmouth, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid containment cell includes an inner layer configured to contain a liquid, an outer layer, and a multilayer self-sealing structure disposed between the inner layer and the outer layer, where the multilayer self-sealing structure includes a plurality of sealing liner layers and further includes at least one slip layer disposed between adjacent sealing liner layers of the plurality of sealing liner la...