US Patent Issued to Goodrich Lighting Systems on Oct. 7 for "Exterior aircraft light, aircraft comprising an exterior aircraft light and method of draining a fluid out of an exterior aircraft light" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,857, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Goodrich Lighting Systems GmbH & Co. KG (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Exterior aircraft light, aircraft comprising an exterior aircraft light and method of draining a fluid out of an exterior aircraft light" was invented by Andre Hessling-von Heimendahl (Koblenz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exterior aircraft light comprises a housing defining an interior space; a light output generation unit comprising at least one light source; power supply electronics, coupled to the light output generation unit for driving a light out-put of the exterior aircraft light; and a draining device for drainin...