US Patent Issued to Lilium eAircraft on Aug. 12 for "Airfoil of an aircraft, aircraft with an ice protection system and method of ice protecting the airfoil" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,545, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Lilium eAircraft GmbH (Wessling, Germany).

"Airfoil of an aircraft, aircraft with an ice protection system and method of ice protecting the airfoil" was invented by Ayaz Janjua Zaid (Gilching, Germany) and Matthias Haisch (Seefeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil of an aircraft with an ice protection system, the airfoil having a leading edge, the ice protection system comprising a first applying mechanism for applying an ice protection fluid along at least a portion of the leading edge of the airfoil, and an ice protection fluid recovering mechanism for recovering the ice prot...