ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,253, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Arlington, Va.).
"Method for designing formable additively manufactured acoustic liners" was invented by Jackson David Johnson (Mishawaka, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a curved acoustic liner panel includes additive manufacturing a honeycomb core that includes a plurality of walls. Each wall of the plurality of walls includes a straight base edge at a flat bottom of the honeycomb core and a corrugated top edge opposite the straight base edge. The honeycomb core is heated and placed between a first curved mold and a second curved mold. The honeycomb core is...