ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,198, issued on June 10, was assigned to Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials Composites AG (Lenzburg, Switzerland).

"Method of manufacturing a composite part comprising a core and UHMWPE skin regions" was invented by Burak Baser (Aarburg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a composite part comprising a core and at least one skin region formed of a low friction UHMWPE skin polymer attached thereto, by: a) providing a mold with a heatable mold cavity; b) loading into the mold cavity UHMWPE powder followed by a core element having a surface with at least one contacting region provided with a plurality...