US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on March 3 for "Z-direction reinforced composites and methods of forming z-direction reinforced composites" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,452, issued on March 3, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Z-direction reinforced composites and methods of forming z-direction reinforced composites" was invented by Christopher T. Kirkpatrick (Pueblo West, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber reinforced composite component may include interleaved fiber layers and ceramic particle layers coated with matrix material. The fiber reinforced composite component may be fabricated by forming a fibrous preform, needling the fibrous preform to form a plurality of z-direction fibers, and densifying the fibrous preform. The fibrous preform may be fabricated by forming a...