US Patent Issued to SAFRAN on Feb. 17 for "Method for producing composite blade cleats for an aircraft turbine engine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,122, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Method for producing composite blade cleats for an aircraft turbine engine" was invented by Yann Didier Simon Marchal (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Dominique Marie Christian Coupe (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Damien Vincent Le Cloarec (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for manufacturing composite blade cleats for an aircraft turbine engine, including providing a woven panel, including a plurality of cleat preforms each having a usable portion and at least one margin, the preforms being distributed in the panel so that two adjacent preforms have at leas...