ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,990, issued on June 9, was assigned to SAFRAN CERAMICS (Le Haillan, France).

"Apparatus comprising a removable tool for infiltration in the gas phase" was invented by Franck Lamouroux (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Jean-Francois Daniel Rene Potin (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A removable tool for consolidation or densification in the gas phase of at least one fibrous preform configured to be arranged in an oven, the removable tool including a homogenization chamber including at least one gas inlet orifice and a depletion chamber including at least one gas outlet orifice, the removable tool further including a ...