US Patent Issued to LEONARDO on Feb. 10 for "Process for manufacturing a structural component in composite material stiffened with at least one stringer" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,990, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LEONARDO S.P.A. (Italy).

"Process for manufacturing a structural component in composite material stiffened with at least one stringer" was invented by Stefano Giuseppe Corvaglia (Grottaglie, Italy) and Pasquale Gambardella (Grottaglie, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for manufacturing a structural component made of composite material comprising a skin and at least one stiffening stringer applied rigidly and integrally to one face of the skin. The process comprises a) arranging, on a tool, a plurality of first layers of uncured or pre-cured composite material, forming the stringer...