US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on July 1 for "Lightning strike resistant structure of flying object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,394, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lightning strike resistant structure of flying object" was invented by Jun Kato (Musashino, Japan), Toshihisa Masuda (Musashino, Japan) and Masato Maruyama (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lightning strike resistant structure of a flying object includes a lattice-shaped conductor 11 surrounding a flying object 100 with a distance not hindering flight, an attachment part 12 for the conductor 11 connected between the lattice-shaped conductor 11 and a part of the flying object 100, and a conducting wire 13 connected between the lattice...