US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 12 for "Ice protection system for a truss-braced wing of an aircraft" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,546, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Ice protection system for a truss-braced wing of an aircraft" was invented by Vyacheslav Khozikov (Bellevue, Wash.), John R. Hull (Redmond, Wash.) and Jeffrey Peter Baucum (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ice protection system for a truss-braced wing of an aircraft is disclosed. The system includes a wing, a support strut, a joint coupling the support strut to the wing to form a structural truss of the truss-braced wing, a magnetic susceptor disposed on or within the joint, and an induction heating coil disposed on or within the truss-braced win...