US Patent Issued to Arris Composites on Sept. 16 for "Compression-molded fiber-composite parts and methods of fabrication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,323, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Arris Composites Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Compression-molded fiber-composite parts and methods of fabrication" was invented by Ethan Escowitz (Berkeley, Calif.) and Erick Davidson (Piedmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fiber-reinforced composite parts include select portions containing a plurality of co-aligned fiber. The parts are fabricated by placing substantially preforms into a mold cavity to form a layup, and compression molding the layup to consolidate the preforms to provide a fiber-reinforced composite part. Different sections of the part can be derived from preforms havin...