US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 9 for "Methods for forming liquid management patterns on a surface of a structure of a vehicle" (Washington, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,168, issued on June 9, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods for forming liquid management patterns on a surface of a structure of a vehicle" was invented by Jason Drexler (Edmonds, Wash.), Edward Ryan Greene (Ladson, S.C.), Stephanie Iris Metting (Seattle) and Xiaoxi Wang (Mukilteo, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes printing one or more features on a surface of a structure of an aircraft, and providing, by the one or more features, one or more liquid management patterns. The printing can includes controlling, by a control unit, a printer to form the one or more features on the surface of the s...