US Patent Issued to General Electric on Jan. 27 for "Methods and apparatus for coating fibers" (Ohio, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,808, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Methods and apparatus for coating fibers" was invented by Guido Teti (Cincinnati), Pierre-Andre Bui (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Steven Robert Hayashi (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Wiktor Serafin (Morrow, Ohio), Timothy Patrick Smith (Morrow, Ohio) and James Anthony Ruud (Delmar, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Frame for use in coating a reinforcing fiber are provided. The frame includes a first frame end having a first cross-sectional shape. The first cross-sectional shape has one or more contact locations that are spaced apart from each other. The reinforcing fiber c...