US Patent Issued to ROHR on Nov. 3 for "Forming a preform into a shaped body" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,731, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ROHR INC. (Chula Vista, Calif.).

"Forming a preform into a shaped body" was invented by Katherine Waugh (San Diego), Mark A Ramsey (Chula Vista, Calif.), Vijay V Pujar (San Diego), Luis A Lopez (Chula Vista, Calif.), Christopher C Koroly (Spring Valley, Calif.), Peter W Aziz (San Diego) and Kyle Rosenbrock (Pueblo, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method is disclosed herein. The method includes arranging a preform over a surface of an inner mold line; folding the preform over sides of the inner mold line; pressing an end of the preform into a grip strip coupled to a side of th...