US Patent Issued to Johns Manville on June 3 for "System for producing a fully impregnated thermoplastic prepreg" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,016, issued on June 3, was assigned to Johns Manville (Denver).

"System for producing a fully impregnated thermoplastic prepreg" was invented by Mingfu Zhang (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Edwing Chaparro-Chavez (Aurora, Colo.) and Jawed Asrar (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for manufacturing a thermoplastic prepreg includes a double belt mechanism that is configured to compress a fiber mat, web, or mesh that is passed through the double belt mechanism, a resin applicator that is configured to apply monomers or oligomers to the fiber mat, web, or mesh, and a curing oven that is configured to effect polymerization ...