US Patent Issued to Rosemount Aerospace on Jan. 27 for "Bulkheads and water dams for air data probes" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,499, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).

"Bulkheads and water dams for air data probes" was invented by John Hofmeister (Hampton, Minn.) and Timothy Thomas Golly (Lakeville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, an air data probe includes, an outer shell defining an airflow path from an inlet at a proximal end thereof to a distal end thereof and a heater configured to be installed within the outer shell an in the airflow path, the water dam comprising, one or more sensing elements at a distal end thereof. The system also includes, a...