US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Jan. 20 for "Methods and apparatus to repair composite airfoil structures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,600, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and apparatus to repair composite airfoil structures" was invented by Jay Jitendra Patel (Irvine, Calif.) and Shrish Shrinivas Kale (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to repair a semi-monocoque wing comprising: a doubler plate configured to be coupled to a skin of the semi-monocoque wing via a first adhesive, the doubler plate having a contour substantially complementary to a contour of a leading edge of the semi-monocoque wing; and a layer of tape positioned at least par...