ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,746, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to 9T Labs AG (Zurich, Switzerland).
"Fiber-reinforced composite device and forming method" was invented by Martin Eichenhofer (Zurich, Switzerland), Giovanni Cavolina (Zurich, Switzerland) and Chester Houwink (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preformed material for use in fiber-reinforced composite materials, the preformed material including one or more fiber rovings including parallel fibers wherein the fiber rovings include one or more folds in a direction parallel to the direction of the fibers and wherein the unfolded width of the fiber rovings have a width included in a...