US Patent Issued to RTX on Jan. 20 for "Alternating and continuous microwave fiber tow coating thermo-chemical reactor furnace" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,143, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Alternating and continuous microwave fiber tow coating thermo-chemical reactor furnace" was invented by John J. Gangloff Jr. (Middletown, Conn.), John E. Holowczak (South Windsor, Conn.), Ying She (Rocky Hill, Conn.), Kenneth David Smith (East Longmeadow, Mass.), Haralambos Cordatos (Colchester, Conn.), Gurkan Gok (Milford, Conn.) and Zissis A. Dardas (Worcester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactor furnace for coating fiber tow includes an elongate reactor having a fiber tow inlet and a fiber tow outlet; a thermo-chemical reactor section positioned alo...