US Patent Issued to Bell Helicopter Textron on March 4 for "Methods and systems for manufacturing composite components" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,189, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Methods and systems for manufacturing composite components" was invented by Michael Dean Dearman (Weatherford, Texas), Jared Mark Paulson (Fort Worth, Texas), Paul K. Oldroyd (Azle, Texas) and Paul Sherrill (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming composite components includes disposing composite laminate over a mandrel. The method further includes infusing the composite laminate with a resin. A gelation of the infused resin is caused by applying a first environmental condition to the composite laminate and mandrel....