US Patent Issued to RTX on Jan. 27 for "Polymeric component and method of making the same" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,756, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Polymeric component and method of making the same" was invented by Danielle L. Grolman (Holden, Mass.), Wenping Zhao (Glastonbury, Conn.), John Joseph Gangloff (Middletown, Conn.), Justin B. Alms (Coventry, Conn.) and Lei Xing (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoset component for joining with a thermoplastic component according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes a thermoset material, a weldable surface on the thermoset material, and a thermal barrier. The weldable surface includes a thermop...