US Patent Issued to Arris Composites on Dec. 2 for "Method and article for an improved compression-molding process" (California, Utah, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,589, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Arris Composites Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Method and article for an improved compression-molding process" was invented by Bert D. Mannhalter (El Cerrito, Calif.), Allison R. Light (Orinda, Calif.), Eugene Joseph Gwost (Anacortes, Wash.) and Ian Graham (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved compression-molding process utilizes a unique assemblage of feed constituents, arranged, and aligned in a particular manner. The assemblage includes fiber-bundle preforms having a filamentous form with a typically circular or oval cross section, and having many thousands of relatively long,...