US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 16 for "Systems and methods for joining metal matrix composite materials" (Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,247, issued on June 16, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for joining metal matrix composite materials" was invented by Carl Roy McIver (Everett, Wash.) and John Ralph Hull (Kinnelon, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes disposing a joining alloy between a first metal matrix composite substrate and a second metal matrix composite substrate to provide an assembly, and heating the assembly to a melting temperature of the joining alloy for a predetermined period of time. The melting temperature of the joining alloy is less than a melting temperature of the first metal matrix composite...