US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 22 for "Fabrication of fibrous preforms in CMC manufacture" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,913, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Fabrication of fibrous preforms in CMC manufacture" was invented by Olivier H. Sudre (Glastonbury, Conn.), Zachary Paul Konopaske (West Hartford, Conn.), Brendan Lenz (North Branford, Conn.), Nil Parikh (Newington, Conn.) and John D. Riehl (Hebron, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a fibrous ceramic preform includes forming a plurality of coated ceramic tows by introducing a polymeric composition to each of a plurality of ceramic tows, and dispersing and stabilizing each of the plurality of ceramic tows such that a coating of a first ...