ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,537, issued on April 15, was assigned to Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (Taufkirchen, Germany).
"Structural part for lightning strike protection" was invented by Christian Karch (Taufkirchen, Germany), Kay Dittrich (Taufkirchen, Germany), Matthias Bleckmann (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Thomas Schuster (Taufkirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural part for lightning strike protection, preferably of an aircraft includes a first structure element, wherein the first structure element includes a conducting material and is adapted to conduct electric currents into a grounded conducting airframe structure, and a second struc...