US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Feb. 4 for "Preform for making a casing structure for turbine engines" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,592, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Preform for making a casing structure for turbine engines" was invented by Ming Xie (Dayton, Ohio), Mingchao Wang (West Chester, Ohio), Douglas Lorrimer Armstrong (Needham, Mass.) and Mitchell Boyer (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preform for making a casing structure for turbine engines. The preform includes a plurality of reinforcing fiber tows arranged in a two-dimensional weave structure, a three-dimensional weave structure, or a braided structure. The plurality of reinforcing fiber tows include integrally woven or braided fiber tows ha...