US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 9 for "Stacking tool fixture for forced flow chemical vapor infiltration" (Pennsylvania, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,520, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Stacking tool fixture for forced flow chemical vapor infiltration" was invented by Jun Nable (Hamden, Conn.) and Alyson T. Burdette (Gilbertsville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tooling assembly suitable for use in chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) comprises a plurality of tooling fixtures arranged as a tower, with a central channel extending therethrough along a channel axis, and a lid atop the tower and covering the central channel. Each tooling fixture of the plurality of tooling fixtures comprises a plurality of walls defining an internal volume, and ...