US Patent Issued to HEXCEL REINFORCEMENTS on April 21 for "Reinforcing material comprising twisted carbon threads for the manufacture of composite parts, and corresponding methods and use" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,941, issued on April 21, was assigned to HEXCEL REINFORCEMENTS (Dagneux, France).

"Reinforcing material comprising twisted carbon threads for the manufacture of composite parts, and corresponding methods and use" was invented by Andrea Viard (Villemoirieu, France), Jean-Marc Beraud (Rives, France), Jean-Benoit Thiel (La chapelle de la tour, France) and Francois Forestello (Dagneux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a reinforcing material (1) consisting of a unidirectional reinforcing web (2) formed of one or more carbon reinforcing yarns (3), associated on each of its faces with a veil of polymeric fiber...