US Patent Issued to RESPONSE TECHNOLOGIES on April 1 for "Aircraft fuel tanks including self-sealing fabric" (Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,955, issued on April 1, was assigned to RESPONSE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Coventry, R.I.).

"Aircraft fuel tanks including self-sealing fabric" was invented by David Allen Pettey (Portsmouth, R.I.) and Richard Fox (Smithfield, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, an aircraft includes a fuselage; a propulsion system powered by a fuel; and a fuel cell configured to store the fuel, the fuel cell including an inner layer configured to contact the fuel; an outer layer; and a self-sealing fabric structure formed from ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), the self-sealing fabric structure being between the inner layer ...