US Patent Issued to Airex on Dec. 2 for "Contoured structural element and production of the contoured structural element" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,642, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Airex AG (Sins, Switzerland).

"Contoured structural element and production of the contoured structural element" was invented by Dietmar Rakutt (Cham, Switzerland), Roman Gatzi (Hunenberg See, Switzerland) and Martin Gaul (Birrhard, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a contoured structural element (100) for use as a core layer in a curved sandwich composite element, the contoured structural element (100) being formed from a thermoplastic foam, in particular PET, the contoured structural element (100) being subdivided, except for a connecting layer (12), into a plur...