US Patent Issued to CYTEC INDUSTRIES on Feb. 18 for "Toughened composite materials capable of delamination propagation resistance" (Italian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,628, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CYTEC INDUSTRIES INC. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Toughened composite materials capable of delamination propagation resistance" was invented by Fiorenzo Lenzi (Vitulazio, Italy), Vincent Aerts (Wrexham, Great Britain), Marco Aurilia (Naples, Italy) and Hazel-Ann Hosein (Anaheim, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curable composite laminate having an interlaminar region formed between adjacent layers of reinforcement fibers. The interlaminar region contains soluble polyimide particles that are dissolvable in the one or more thermoset resins at a curing temperature of the curable matrix resin, and i...