ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,859, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TPI Inc. (Warren, R.I.).
"Positioning profiles for pultrusions in composite bus body" was invented by Ahsan Uddin (Warwick, R.I.) and John Perraut (Somerset, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a composite vehicle components (e.g. walls, floor, roof) having interleaved foam core members and pre-pultruded reinforcing pillars by pultruding the cores and pillars into a vehicle component (e.g. bus sidewall formed as integral component front to rear) and cutting apertures therein for insertion of vehicle accessories (e.g. windows). Also, vehicle components can be formed having i...