US Patent Issued to Airbus Defence and Space, Fundacio Eurecat on April 15 for "Manufacturing method and system for manufacturing a continuous fiber reinforced composite part" (German, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,206, issued on April 15, was assigned to Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Fundacio Eurecat (Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain).

"Manufacturing method and system for manufacturing a continuous fiber reinforced composite part" was invented by Christian Metzner (Taufkirchen, Germany), Wolfgang Machunze (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Marc Crescenti (Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To achieve a composite material part with a fully load adapted 3D fiber reinforcement with low costs for tools and process, a method is provided for manufacturing a part made of composite material with a continuous fibe...