US Patent Issued to SAFRAN on Nov. 3 for "Fibrous texture for a thin-edged composite blade" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,399, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Fibrous texture for a thin-edged composite blade" was invented by Dominique Marie Christian Coupe (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Marc-Antoine Colot (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fibrous texture for a blade has a three-dimensional weave between a first plurality of yarn layers and a second plurality of yarn layers, includes a blade aerofoil part extending between a first edge and a second edge. The texture includes a first part with at least three yarn layers of the first plurality of yarns and at least three yarn layers of the second plurality of yarns....