ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,926, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Coriolis Group (Queven, France).

"Application head comprising a cutting system with two movable blades" was invented by Loic Gaillard (Lanester, France) and Julien Coudurier (Lorient, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application head specially designed to produce parts made of composite materials, comprising an application system, guiding means defining a guiding plane, a cutting system for cutting a fiber, the cutting system comprising a first blade movable in translation along a cutting direction and provided with a bevel defining a first cutting edge and a second blade movable in tra...