ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,781, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Method of manufacturing aircraft aerofoil" was invented by Thomas Barnett (Bristol, Great Britain) and Lee Proudler (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an aircraft aerofoil such as a winglet. The aircraft aerofoil includes: a first cover, a second cover, an aerofoil leading edge, and an aerofoil trailing edge where the first and second cover are joined at a trailing edge interface. The first cover is formed by: a lay-up step in which a plurality of fibre plies are laid up to obtain a preform, wherein ...