US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on June 16 for "Metal plating retention on additively manufacture plastic parts for an aircraft" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,878, issued on June 16, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Metal plating retention on additively manufacture plastic parts for an aircraft" was invented by Brent J. Merritt (Southwick, Mass.) and Viktor Kilchyk (Lancaster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of additively manufacturing an aircraft part, having steps of: forming a base, defining a shape of the aircraft part, out of first thermoplastic polymer; forming a lower support surface onto discrete locations of the base by printing a mixture of a second thermoplastic polymer and a catalyst compound formed with metal onto the discrete location...