ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,655, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Hybrid ice protection system" was invented by Nathaniel Ching (Hartville, Ohio), Sugumaran Selvaraj (Bangalore, India), Rhushikesh Patil (Bengaluru, India), Jin Hu (Cary, N.C.) and Galdemir C. Botura (Copley, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid deicing system is disclosed herein. The hybrid deicing system includes a first deicing system coupled to a high critical zone of a control surface, the first deicing system providing thermal energy to the high critical zone of the control surface to remove ice from the control surface, a second deicing system cou...