US Patent Issued to RTX on Jan. 13 for "Adaptive vibration amplitude for impact grinding of ceramic matrix composite components" (Connecticut, Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,842, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Adaptive vibration amplitude for impact grinding of ceramic matrix composite components" was invented by Zhigang Wang (South Windsor, Conn.), Andrzej E. Kuczek (Bristol, Conn.), Robin H. Fernandez (East Haddam, Conn.), John D. Riehl (Hebron, Conn.), Alan C. Barron (Jupiter, Fla.), John Henry Shaw (West Hartford, Conn.), Evan B. Callaway (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Cheng Gao (South Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of machining ceramic matrix composite components includes providing an ultrasonic vibration tool having a tool tip, and exciti...