US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on June 9 for "Shape forming OPF preform" (Colorado, California, Arizona, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,697, issued on June 9, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Shape forming OPF preform" was invented by John S. Linck (Pueblo, Colo.), Christopher C. Koroly (Spring Valley, Calif.), Kirk Christopher Newton (Vail, Ariz.), Vijay V. Pujar (San Diego), Paul T. Perea (Pueblo West, Colo.), James W. Rudolph (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Christopher T. Kirkpatrick (Pueblo West, Colo.) and Katherine E. Waugh (Easton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a C/C part includes fabricating an oxidized PAN fiber preform comprising a stack of sheets of multi-axial, non-crimp, OPF fabric. The method includes positi...