ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,627, issued on March 17, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Method for metal bonding" was invented by Nishad S. Prabhu (Wichita, Kan.), Joshua Ross Huston (Douglass, Kan.), Kishor E. Shelar (Wichita, Kan.) and Amit Tamhane (Wichita, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for metal bonding includes providing at least two metal sheet assemblies wherein each metal sheet assembly includes at least one frame member and a flat metal sheet. Each frame member is placed onto the flat metal sheet to form a metal sheet assembly. The metal sheet assemblies are stacked upon one another to form a sheet stack, and ...