US Patent Issued to RTX on March 3 for "Ceramic matrix composite sandwich structure reinforced with z-tows" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,033, issued on March 3, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Ceramic matrix composite sandwich structure reinforced with z-tows" was invented by Russell Kim (Temecula, Calif.), Jamshid Kavosi (Dana Point, Calif.) and James T. Roach (Vernon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reinforcing a ceramic sandwich structure includes forming a ceramic core, assembling the sandwich structure by disposing the core between and in physical contact with a first panel and a second panel, and weaving a plurality of z-fibers at least partially through a thickness of the sandwich structure."

The patent was filed on May 12, 202...