US Patent Issued to Spirit AeroSystems on March 31 for "Apparatus and method for roll forming thermoplastic composites" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,545, issued on March 31, was assigned to Spirit AeroSystems Inc. (Wichita, Kan.).

"Apparatus and method for roll forming thermoplastic composites" was invented by Kerrick Dando (Wichita, Kan.), Mark Anthony Wadsworth (Wichita, Kan.) and Rahbar Nasserrafi (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for roll forming thermoplastic composites comprises a plurality of thermoplastic composite material spools, a plurality of thermoplastic composite material rollers, a plurality of sheet metal spools, a plurality of welding rollers, an oven, a forming roller, a pair of pinch rollers. The thermoplastic composite material spool...