US Patent Issued to Airborne International on May 13 for "Apparatus and method for processing consolidated stacks of fiber reinforced plies" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,574, issued on May 13, was assigned to Airborne International B.V. (Netherlands).

"Apparatus and method for processing consolidated stacks of fiber reinforced plies" was invented by Mark Muilwijk (s-Gravenhage, Netherlands), Moiz Ur Rehman (s-Gravenhage, Netherlands), Recep Yaldiz (Geleen, Netherlands) and Andries Jakobus Petrus Van Zyl (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for processing a consolidated stack of fiber reinforced plies, comprising an inspection device, in particular an optical inspection device, arranged to inspect a consolidation state of the stack of fiber reinforced plies, and a h...