US Patent Issued to J. & P. Coats on March 17 for "Fiber preform with mistake-proof positioning element and use thereof" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,567, issued on March 17, was assigned to J. & P. Coats Ltd. (Uxbridge, Great Britain).

"Fiber preform with mistake-proof positioning element and use thereof" was invented by Probir Kumar Guha (Uxbridge, Great Britain) and George Han (Uxbridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber preform is provided for use in an overmolding process that includes a fiber bundle arranged in a predetermined pattern and attached to itself by a plurality of stitches of a thread to form at least one preform layer. At least one positioning element is associated with the at least one preform layer, the at least one positioning element confi...