US Patent Issued to Avient on Nov. 18 for "Resiliently flexible composite articles with overmolded rigid portions" (Missouri, Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,956, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Avient Corp. (Avon Lake, Ohio).

"Resiliently flexible composite articles with overmolded rigid portions" was invented by Brian Everett (Chesterfield, Mo.), Doug Hammond (Downey, Calif.) and Rob Loveland (Delta, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resiliently flexible articles include a resiliently flexible element, a first rigid element, and a second rigid element. The resiliently flexible element is formed of a fiber reinforced polymeric composite. The first rigid element is formed of a first thermoplastic composition and at least a portion of the first rigid element is bonded, such as by an ...