US Patent Issued to RTX on Feb. 17 for "Z-channeling into a preform via needle perforation in a stand-alone tool" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,085, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Z-channeling into a preform via needle perforation in a stand-alone tool" was invented by Molly Kole (Hartford, Conn.), John D. Riehl (Hebron, Conn.), Olivier H. Sudre (Glastonbury, Conn.), Zachary Paul Konopaske (West Hartford, Conn.), Brendan Lenz (North Branford, Conn.), Nitin Garg (Avon, Conn.) and Nil Parikh (Newington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming z-channels in a fibrous ceramic preform includes mounting the preform in a tooling assembly, the tooling assembly comprising a first fixture and a second fixture, heating the preform mo...