US Patent Issued to RTX on Feb. 10 for "Multi-tip tooling design for ultrasonic impact grinding of CMCs" (Connecticut, Florida, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,875, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Multi-tip tooling design for ultrasonic impact grinding of CMCs" was invented by Zhigang Wang (South Windsor, Conn.), Andrzej E. Kuczek (Bristol, Conn.), Gajawalli V. Srinivasan (South Windsor, Conn.), Robin H. Fernandez (East Haddam, Conn.), John D. Riehl (Hebron, Conn.), Alan C. Barron (Jupiter, Fla.), Ahmed Abdillahi Abdi (Oceanside, Calif.), Jason Nelson (Puyallup, Wash.) and Andrew Joseph Lazur (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for ultrasonic impact grinding apparatus driven to vibrate along a longitudinal axis at an applied operating f...