US Patent Issued to RTX on July 29 for "Method and system for preventing back strikes when laser drilling hollow parts" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,630, issued on July 29, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method and system for preventing back strikes when laser drilling hollow parts" was invented by Henry H. Thayer (Wethersfield, Conn.) and Dmitri Novikov (Avon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a hollow component includes injecting a fluid into an internal cavity of the hollow component to achieve a pressure of the fluid within the internal cavity that is greater than an ambient pressure. The method further includes drilling at least one hole through the hollow component from an external surface of the hollow component to the internal cavi...