US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Aug. 18 for "Three-dimensional woven fabric for a composite component" (Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,824, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Three-dimensional woven fabric for a composite component" was invented by Ming Xie (Dayton, Ohio) and Aaron M. Gilbert (West Newbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional woven fabric for a composite component and methods of manufacturing such a fabric. The woven fabric has a first region, and a second region and a plurality of reinforcing fiber tows woven together in a three-dimensional pattern such that the woven fabric has a warp direction, a weft direction, and a thickness direction. The reinforcing fiber tows include a plurali...