US Patent Issued to RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES on July 22 for "Superabsorbent polymer filament sizing for CMC applications" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,632, issued on July 22, was assigned to RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Superabsorbent polymer filament sizing for CMC applications" was invented by Brendan M. Lenz (Wethersfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a ceramic fabric for use in a ceramic matrix composite includes arranging a plurality of ceramic tows, each comprising a plurality of filaments, introducing a superabsorbent polymer to the plurality of ceramic tows such that an amount of the superabsorbent polymer surrounds at least a subset of the plurality of filaments within each of the plurality of ceramic tows, and introducing...