US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Nov. 11 for "Co-cured UV-resistant fiberglass coated composite material for aircraft wing fuel tank assembly" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,574, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Co-cured UV-resistant fiberglass coated composite material for aircraft wing fuel tank assembly" was invented by Patrice K. Ackerman (Kent, Wash.), Melinda D. Miller (Snohomish, Wash.) and Jason A. Bolles (Kent, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Composite material protection from UV degradation is disclosed by providing a co-cured composite material substrate co-cured with a UV/visible light-resistant fiberglass layer to form co-cured composite materials for exclusively imparting UV/visible light-resistant properties to co-cured composite material substr...