US Patent Issued to UBIQ Aerospace AS on March 17 for "System and method for de-icing of a carbon composite propeller" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,974, issued on March 17, was assigned to UBIQ Aerospace AS (Trondheim, Norway).

"System and method for de-icing of a carbon composite propeller" was invented by Shibarchi Majumder (Trondheim, Norway), Nicolas Muller (Trondheim, Norway) and Kasper Borup (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propeller blade comprising a de-icing system is described, wherein the propeller blade comprises a blade body 1 comprising a carbon fiber fabric skin, a leading edge 11, a trailing edge 12, a hub end 9 and a tip end 10. The blade body 1 comprises a resistive wire 4 that extends along the leading edge 11 to a conductive glue 6. The re...