US Patent Issued to ROHR on Sept. 8 for "Compliant consolidation block for continuous welding of polymer matrix composites" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,603, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ROHR INC. (Chula Vista, Calif.).

"Compliant consolidation block for continuous welding of polymer matrix composites" was invented by Andrzej E. Kuczek (Bristol, Conn.), Zhigang Wang (South Windsor, Conn.), John Joseph Gangloff (Middletown, Conn.) and Wenping Zhao (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compliant consolidation block is provided. The compliant consolidation block includes a non-articulating component, a first articulating self-aligning component coupled to the non-articulating component, and two second articulating self-aligning components coupled to the first articu...