US Patent Issued to RTX on July 14 for "Additively manufactured graphite tooling" (Connecticut, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,997, issued on July 14, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Additively manufactured graphite tooling" was invented by Olivier H. Sudre (Glastonbury, Conn.), Zachary Paul Konopaske (West Hartford, Conn.), Robin H. Fernandez (East Haddam, Conn.), Jesse R. Boyer (Middletown, Conn.), Afshin Bazshushtari (Rolling Hills Est, Calif.), Mary Colby (West Hartford, Conn.) and Andrew Joseph Lazur (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a tooling fixture suitable for use in infiltrating a fibrous preform includes generating a model of the tooling fixture, the model being conformal and complementary to ...