US Patent Issued to Mainstream Engineering on Feb. 10 for "Apparatus for the fabrication of strand-embedded structures with bare leads" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,977, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Mainstream Engineering Corp. (Rockledge, Fla.).

"Apparatus for the fabrication of strand-embedded structures with bare leads" was invented by Benjamin S. Woods (Melbourne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for the extrusion of a solid strand into a matrix material is disclosed. The apparatus consists of two main parts including an adapter for constraining the strand until mixing with the matrix ('strand injector'), and a motor-driven gear system that feeds the strand into the injector ('strand extruder'). With this system, a bare strand can be extruded allowing for the creation o...