US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 19 for "Floating tooling assembly for chemical vapor infiltration" (Connecticut, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,037, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Floating tooling assembly for chemical vapor infiltration" was invented by Alyson T. Burdette (Gilbertsville, Pa.), Raymond Surace (Newington, Conn.) and Jon Erik Sobanski (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tooling assembly suitable for use in infiltrating a fibrous preform comprises an outer tooling fixture and an inner tooling fixture. The outer tooling fixture comprises a first portion removably attached to a second portion, and a first pair of oppositely disposed windows defined by the first portion and the second portion. Each of the first ...