ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,758, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC (Kansas City, Mo.).
"Fused materials with mismatched properties" was invented by Rachel Leigh Grodsky (Raymore, Mo.), Noah Michael Weyrauch (Lee's Summit, Mo.) and Richard K. Brow (Rolla, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for creating glass and ceramic fibers comprising mixed properties are disclosed. In some embodiments, a first material and a second material are fused in a cane drawing process to generate fibers. The first material and the second material may comprise different coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) prope...