US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 30 for "Multi-directional baffles for aircraft fuel tanks" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,240, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Multi-directional baffles for aircraft fuel tanks" was invented by Ernst Wolfgang Stautner (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Lokaditya Ryali (Albany, N.Y.) and Dhanushkodi Durai Mariappan (Guilderland, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems and methods for using multi-directional baffles in cryogenic fuel tanks are provided. An example cryogenic fuel tank comprises an inner surface defining an interior of the cryogenic fuel tank to hold a fuel and a plurality of baffles including a first baffle, the first baffle including a first member extending along a fi...