US Patent Issued to CORNING on Feb. 18 for "High capacity print station, method of making a polymer composite part, and polymer composite part" (Pennsylvania, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,942, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"High capacity print station, method of making a polymer composite part, and polymer composite part" was invented by Patrick W Albor (Covington, Pa.), Roy Joseph Bourcier (Corning, N.Y.) and Eric Hamilton Starns (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to embodiments of an apparatus for producing polymer composite panels. The polymer composite panels include one or more layers of a polymeric matrix having discontinuous fibers embedded therein. The apparatus has a frame, a deposition bed, and a deposition head configured to move rela...