ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,175, issued on May 12, was assigned to PRF Composite Holdings Ltd. (Dorset, Great Britain).
"Reinforcement material for composite laminate" was invented by Robert Burnell (Dorset, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A woven fabric prepreg for constructing a composite laminate comprises two sheets of fabric woven from tows of fibres, impregnated with a polymer matrix and adhered together. Each sheet is woven in a satin weave such that the tows create long floats on at least one side of the sheet. The sheets are positioned face-to-face with the long floats parallel, such that the tows pack together and the space between the she...