US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on July 14 for "Method and arrangement for manufacturing a composite part" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,051, issued on July 14, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method and arrangement for manufacturing a composite part" was invented by Lukas Sauerland (Hamburg, Germany) and Torben Jacob (Beckdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement and method for manufacturing a composite part includes a mold, a composite material including fiber material and matrix material on a forming surface of the mold. To provide a simple and cheap technology for forming and optionally curing the component at the mold, the method includes providing a pressing tool made of semi-crystalline thermoplastic material in an ...