US Patent Issued to United Arab Emirates University on July 14 for "Apparatus with a thermoplastic tube to tube-sheet joint and associated friction stir based fabrication method" (Emirati Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,040, issued on July 14, was assigned to United Arab Emirates University (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

"Apparatus with a thermoplastic tube to tube-sheet joint and associated friction stir based fabrication method" was invented by Abdel-Hamid Ismail Mourad (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Syed Haris Iftikhar (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Dinu Thomas Thekkuden (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates) and Nizamudeen Alungal Cherupurakal (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method of manufacturing a thermoplastic tube-to-tube-sheet joint is disclosed. The method provides at least one tube-sheet having a ...