US Patent Issued to RTX on May 27 for "Gradient tow ribbonizing for chemical vapor infiltration ceramic matrix composites" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,724, issued on May 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Gradient tow ribbonizing for chemical vapor infiltration ceramic matrix composites" was invented by Kathryn S. Read (Marlborough, Conn.) and Brendan M. Lenz (Wethersfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a ceramic fabric and ceramic matrix composite components constructed from the ceramic fabric include transforming ceramic tows, or ceramic fabrics, to varying degrees from a first tow geometry to a second tow geometry, thereby reducing a first dimension of the ceramic tows and increasing a second dimension of the ceramic tows orthogonal ...