US Patent Issued to DUTCH THERMOPLASTIC COMPONENTS on Jan. 13 for "Method for forming a heated thermoplastic composite into a closed profile using a tooling" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,933, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DUTCH THERMOPLASTIC COMPONENTS B.V. (Almere, Netherlands).

"Method for forming a heated thermoplastic composite into a closed profile using a tooling" was invented by David Reijer Manten (Almere, Netherlands), Dennis Lunenborg (Almere, Netherlands), Peter Floris Evert Boer (Almere, Netherlands) and Wesley Houtman (Almere, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a heated thermoplastic composite material into a closed profile using a tooling includes a) forming, during a first forming stage, a heated thermoplastic composite in a first space between a male tooling part and ...