US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on July 1 for "Systems and methods for ultrasonic repair" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,811, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for ultrasonic repair" was invented by Zhigang Wang (South Windsor, Conn.), Tahany I. El-Wardany (Vernon, Conn.), Andrzej Ernest Kuczek (Bristol, Conn.) and David Ulrich Furrer (Marlborough, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a method includes installing a welding tool into a repair tool holder, ultrasonic welding a repair sheet to a part to be repaired with the welding tool, removing the welding tool from the repair tool holder, installing a machining tool into the repai...