US Patent Issued to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 15 for "Method to improve toughness of adhesively bonded composite joints" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,607, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Method to improve toughness of adhesively bonded composite joints" was invented by Ran Tao (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Wagih (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Arief Yudhanto (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Gilles Lubineau (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-standing adhesive layer is configured to join a first adherend to a second adherend, with no additional adhesive. The adhesive layer includes a material that self-stands and is configured to adhere to the first and second adherends; a first surface of th...