Patent 9631744 was granted and assigned to Mide Technology Corporation on April, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An in-flight refueling hose and method. The hose includes an inner braid including pseudoelastic shape memory alloy (e.g., nitinol) wires. These wires undergo a stress induced phase change absorbing energy to dampen oscillations of the hose in use.