ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,546, issued on June 24, was assigned to Agile Ultrasonics Corp. (Hilliard, Ohio).
"Ultrasonic consolidation of materials" was invented by Matthew A. Short (Columbus, Ohio) and James Stratton (Columbus, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for consolidating materials, comprising a sonotrode configured to direct ultrasonic energy into materials to be consolidated, wherein the materials to be consolidated have both a glass transition temperature and a melting temperature; a non-rigid consolidating material in proximity to the sonotrode, wherein the non-rigid consolidating material and sonotrode define a region therebetween for r...