ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,297, issued on July 8, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) and AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Aircraft structure component for laminar flow" was invented by Tobias Schreck (Hamburg, Germany), Peter Rosenecker (Hamburg, Germany) and Tim Chant (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft structure component (1) for laminar flow including an outer skin (3) having an aerodynamic surface (5), wherein the aerodynamic surface (5) has a leading edge portion (7) and a downstream portion (11) adjacently downstream from the leading edge portion (7), wherein the downstream portion (11...