US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on Oct. 7 for "Solar thermal testing of ablators and composites" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,073, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Solar thermal testing of ablators and composites" was invented by Jeffrey Daniel Engerer (Cedar Crest, N.M.), Kimberly D. Wakefield (Edgewood, N.M.), Michael J K Abere (Albuquerque, N.M.), Charles Hanks (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Joshua Mark Christian (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for thermal ablation testing is provided. The apparatus comprises: a chamber; an optically transparent window in the chamber; a sample holder inside the chamber; a test sample in the sample holder; a number of b...