US Patent Issued to General Electric on Sept. 22 for "System and method for forming a ceramic sandwich-structured composite component" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,914, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"System and method for forming a ceramic sandwich-structured composite component" was invented by Ryan Marcus Young (West Chester, Ohio), Nathan Carl Sizemore (Hamilton, Ohio) and Wayne Allen Brown (Blue Ash, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a ceramic sandwich-structured composite component includes applying one or more ceramic matrix composite (CMC) plies to a surface of a tool, and positioning a ceramic foam precursor with respect to the tool such that the ceramic foam precursor and the one or more CMC plies is disposed in a sea...