INVERCON LLC
Elastic semi-conductive polymer coating for aircraft de-icing, applied as a thin electrically-heated layer with low-power heating and low surface roughness treatment.
- Sector
- Aerospace
- Headquarters
- STATE COLLEGE, PA
- Latest Form D
- $50K, May 2025
- Total capital
- $200K
- Federal grants
- $150K
- 1 award · 2016
- Rank in peer group#4 of 21
- Private capital raised
- $50K
- 1 Form D · last May 2025
- 17 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- None on recordNo federal contract awards found.
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$50K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Modeling and Experimental Demonstration of a Hybrid Heatable Coating Ice Protection System for the MQ-9 Vehicle$150K
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Federal first
105months
from INVERCON LLC’s first federal award to its first private round.
- First federal award · Aug 2016
- Defense · $150K
- First Form D · May 2025
- $50K · 1st Form D
- Awards before first raise
- 1 award
An association in public records, not a cause or a prediction.
Standing among 21 peers
Line = medianAerospace · Material
- Federal grants#4 · top 19%
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Founders and team
Researcher links verified by same-company patents and grants- Joseph Thomas SzefiResearcherExecutive OfficerLinked by $150K in grants as PI
What it has protected
No granted patents are on record.
USPTO usually publishes applications 18 months after filing, so recent applications may not be visible yet. Patents assigned under a different entity name won’t match.
Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026
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Regulatory activity · Aerospace
- Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs of NASA-Effectuation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Special Conditions: AMAC Aerospace, The Boeing Company Model 747- 8 Airplane; Side-Facing SeatsFederal Aviation Administration
- Standard Instrument Approach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle Departure Procedures; Miscellaneous AmendmentsFederal Aviation Administration
- Operating Limitations at John F. Kennedy International AirportFederal Aviation Administration
- Operating Limitations at New York LaGuardia AirportFederal Aviation Administration
- Special Conditions: Honeywell Aerospace US LLC, Dassault Aviation Model Falcon 900EX Airplane; Electronic System Security Protection From Unauthorized External AccessFederal Aviation Administration
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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Data freshness
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