ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,881, issued on March 31, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).
"Co-cured UV/visible light-resistant coated composite material for aircraft wing fuel tank assembly" was invented by Patrice K. Ackerman (Kent, Wash.), Melinda D. Miller (Snohomish, Wash.) and Jason A. Bolles (Kent, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Composite material protection from UV degradation is disclosed by providing a co-cured composite material substrate co-cured with a UV/visible light-resistant layer to form co-cured composite materials for exclusively imparting UV/visible light-resistant properties to co-cured composite material substrates f...