US Patent Issued to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES on March 31 for "Replicable shaping of a fiber blank" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,562, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Replicable shaping of a fiber blank" was invented by Yann Didier Simon Marchal (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Daniel Youngberg (Rochester, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for shaping a fiber blank including a warp tracer thread and at least one weft tracer thread, includes the projection of a warp visual reference onto the fiber blank corresponding to a reference location of the warp tracer thread, the deformation of the blank from the bottom of the airfoil blank to the top of the airfoil blank such as to make the warp tracer thread correspond wit...