US Patent Issued to THE AEROSPACE on June 3 for "Quality control evaluation method of cyanate ester matrix resin material within CFRP composite concerning localized hydrolytic degradation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,765, issued on June 3, was assigned to THE AEROSPACE Corp. (Segundo, Calif.).

"Quality control evaluation method of cyanate ester matrix resin material within CFRP composite concerning localized hydrolytic degradation" was invented by Rafael J. Zaldivar (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Hyun I. Kim (Brea, Calif.) and Geena L. Ferrelli (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Evaluating the quality of cyanate ester matrix resin material includes inserting a small piece of a deposit extracted from a composite laminate into an epoxy for cross-sectional analysis, and performing cross-sectional polishing on the small piece of the depo...