ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,897, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Method for automatically searching for at least one textile pattern in a composite material reinforcement" was invented by Yanneck Wielhorski (Moissy Cramayel, France), Teddy Fixy (Moissy Cramayel, France) and Julien Paul Schneider (Moissy Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically searching for at least one given textile pattern in a composite material reinforcement including a plurality of textile patterns, each textile pattern including a plurality of reinforcing yarns arranged according to a textile topology, the method inc...