US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 15 for "Functional integration of transition structures into fiber reinforced composite layups" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,242, issued on July 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Functional integration of transition structures into fiber reinforced composite layups" was invented by Ryan Hahnlen (Dublin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a multi-material component including providing a fiber reinforced component, the fiber reinforced component having one or more working layers of a fiber reinforced composite material, wherein each of the one or more working layers includes one or more fiber reinforced composite material laminae. The method includes attaching the fiber reinforced component to a multi-material transit...