ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,876, issued on March 31, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG (Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany).

"Aircraft component with a surface exposed to an ambient air-flow and a heat transfer device and a method for operating a heat transfer device with a aircraft component" was invented by Carlos Hannover Galindo-Lopez (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an aircraft component, in particular an aircraft gas turbine, having a face which can be flowed over or around by ambient air, in particular a housing of the aircraft gas turbine and a heat exchange apparatus having at least one heat exchange face, ch...