US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on May 5 for "Method of manufacturing a woven fabric for a composite component for a turbine engine" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,177, issued on May 5, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Method of manufacturing a woven fabric for a composite component for a turbine engine" was invented by Mingchao Wang (West Chester, Ohio), Mitchell Boyer (Cincinnati), Ming Xie (Dayton, Ohio) and Douglas Lorrimer Armstrong (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a woven fabric for a composite component for a turbine engine. The method includes weaving a plurality of reinforcing fiber tows to form a woven fabric with a surface. The reinforcing fiber tows include a plurality of first fiber tows and a plurality of second fibe...