ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,189, issued on July 21.
"Liquid thermoplastic resin and pultrusion method" was invented by Yahia Djaoued (Shippagan, Canada), Ihsan Basaran (Shippagan, Canada), Bernard Morin (Shippagan, Canada), Gabriel LaPlante (Dieppa, Canada), Marie Helene Thibault (Shippagan, Canada) and Maurice Guitton (Lunenburg, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid acrylic resin used in reactive thermoplastic pultrusion that produces a nanocomposite/fiber-reinforced hybrid composite structure with relatively high tensile strength and high flexural strength compared to thermoplastic fiber-reinforced composites made using resin transfer molding proces...