US Patent Issued on March 18 for "Clutch assembly including wet friction material with calcined kaolin clay and tung modified phenolic resin" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,133, issued on March 18.

"Clutch assembly including wet friction material with calcined kaolin clay and tung modified phenolic resin" was invented by Kayla Covington (Dalton, Ohio), Rashid Farahati (Copley, Ohio), Murat Bakan (Canton, Ohio) and Michael Yanetta (Valley City, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clutch assembly for a motor vehicle drivetrain includes a rigid support and a wet friction material fixed to a surface of the rigid support. The wet friction material includes a base material including a matrix of fibers and filler particles embedded in the matrix of fibers. The filler particles include calcined kaolin clay, ...