US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on July 8 for "Extruded elastomeric surface or erosion plys" (Ohio, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,342, issued on July 8, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Extruded elastomeric surface or erosion plys" was invented by Casey M Slane (Tallmadge, Ohio), Jin Hu (Cary, N.C.) and Nathaniel Ching (Hartville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming an aircraft component includes forming an inner portion of the aircraft component. The method further includes forming an outer layer of the aircraft component using extrusion of an elastomeric material. The method further includes coupling the outer layer of the aircraft component to the inner portion of the aircraft component."

The patent was filed on June 9,...