ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,804, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Joints between acoustic panels" was invented by Jackson David Johnson (Mishawaka, Ind.), Benjamin G. Gardell (Bristol, Conn.) and Keith B. Allyn (Rutland, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic structure includes at least a pair of adjacent panels. The panels have edges, and the panels define a plurality of cells. A first of the at least a pair of acoustic panels is connected to a second of the pair of acoustic panels at adjacent ones of the edges. There is a pair of spaced faces in each acoustic panel between which the plurality of cells extend. There ar...