US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 31 for "Methods and apparatus for artificial bird manufacturing in impact testing" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,745, issued on March 31, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Methods and apparatus for artificial bird manufacturing in impact testing" was invented by Nicholas Joseph Kray (West Chester, Ohio), Thomas J. Brinck (Evendale, Ohio), Tod W. Davis (West Chester, Ohio) and Chad M. Harbert (Evendale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for artificial bird manufacturing in impact testing is described herein. An apparatus to generate an artificial bird for impact testing includes a mold generator to form a mold based on a bird class identification, a mold filler to fill the mold with a first layer of...