US Patent Issued to RTX on Oct. 27 for "Reinforcing fibers for use in ceramic matrix composites, methods of manufacture and articles comprising the same" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,258, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Reinforcing fibers for use in ceramic matrix composites, methods of manufacture and articles comprising the same" was invented by Jonas S. Banhos (Rocky Hill, Conn.), Russell Kim (Glastonbury, Conn.) and James T. Roach (Vernon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of reinforcing a composite comprising determining a location of a first cooling hole in a plurality of plies; where a cooling gas is transported through the cooling hole; disposing a z-fiber in the plurality of plies at a location proximate to where the first cooling hole wi...