US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 7 for "Methods and apparatus for coating fibers" (Ohio, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,690, issued on April 7, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Methods and apparatus for coating fibers" was invented by Guido Teti (Cincinnati), Steven Robert Hayashi (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Pierre-Andre Bui (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Wiktor Serafin (Morrow, Ohio), Timothy Patrick Smith (Morrow, Ohio) and James Anthony Ruud (Delmar, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for coating reinforcing fiber of a composite component is provided, The system includes a frame including at least one contact location for contacting the reinforcing fiber and a movement mechanism including an actuator. The movement mechanism is operab...