US Patent Issued to FMC Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for joining composite structures to metal structures" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,283, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to FMC Technologies Inc. (Houston).

"Systems and methods for joining composite structures to metal structures" was invented by Gabriel Silva (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for providing a joining technique for a metal part and a composite part. The joining technique in which either the metal or the composite part has at least one portion receive a laser etching treatment according at least in part to a laser configuration. Further, the joining technique in which the metal and composite parts are positioned to contact at least one etched surface. Even further,...