ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,146, issued on July 22, was assigned to Kineticure LLC (Miamisburg, Ohio).
"Bonded nutplate rapid cure system with fixtured heater" was invented by Jason P. Rice (Dayton, Ohio) and Michael J. Hood (Springboro, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods for positioning and bonding a nutplate to a substrate comprising at least one aperture, wherein the system includes a nutplate retention fixture formed from a threaded insert and an elastomeric tube engaged with the threaded insert; a heater assembly formed from a heating element, a temperature sensor operable to measure the temperature of the heating elemen...