US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Feb. 10 for "Aircraft airfoil formed from thermally adaptive materials and including damping element, stiffening element, and a thermoelectric junction" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,224, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Aircraft airfoil formed from thermally adaptive materials and including damping element, stiffening element, and a thermoelectric junction" was invented by Viktor Kilchyk (Lancaster, N.Y.) and Brent J. Merritt (Southwick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil, having: a body defining a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein the body comprises: a base having an outer boundary extending longitudinally from a first end to a second end and transversely from a first side to a second side; and beads within the outer boundary, wherein each of ...