ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,107, issued on April 8, was assigned to Raytheon Technologies Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Continuous multiple tow coating reactor" was invented by Ying She (East Hartford, Conn.) and John E. Holowczak (S. Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coating a fiber tow includes moving a fiber tow across a wedge to separate the fiber tow into a plurality of sub-tows, and coating the plurality of sub-tows."

The patent was filed on June 1, 2023, under Application No. 18/204,799.

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