US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 17 for "Ceramic matrix composite component repairing and joining" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,174, issued on March 17, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Ceramic matrix composite component repairing and joining" was invented by Johnnattan Tennessee Ugarte (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for joining a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component includes placing a plurality of joining plies onto a specified area such that a respective fiber direction of each of the plurality of joining plies is off-plane to a fiber direction of one or more composite plies of the specified area. The respective fiber direction of each of the plurality of joining plies differs from the respective fiber di...