US Patent Issued to RapidFlight Holdings on June 24 for "Additive manufactured airframe structure having a plurality of reinforcement elements" (Virginia, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,946, issued on June 24, was assigned to RapidFlight Holdings LLC (Manassas, Va.).

"Additive manufactured airframe structure having a plurality of reinforcement elements" was invented by John F. Gundlach (Manassas, Va.) and Jacob S. Allen (Hood River, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufactured airframe structure includes a first additive manufactured fuselage segment including a first outer wall that extends in a normal direction from a first end to a second end, and also includes a plurality of reinforcement elements extending from the second end of, and away from, the first outer wall in the normal direction. The a...