US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Jan. 13 for "Multi-region surfacing film for enhanced adhesion of finishes to thermoplastic surfaces" (Washington, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,964, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Multi-region surfacing film for enhanced adhesion of finishes to thermoplastic surfaces" was invented by Michael Harris Larson (Mercer Island, Wash.), Marcus Anthony Belcher (Sammamish, Wash.), Gwendolyn Marie Janda (Seattle), Gregory Martin Reyneke (Seattle) and Ying Shi (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermoplastic composite material structures comprise a multi-region thermoplastic surfacing film layer that further comprises first and second regions within the multi-region thermoplastic surfacing film layer having visually-detectable colors diff...