ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,699, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GKN Aerospace Sweden AB (Trollhattan, Sweden).
"Injection bonding of composite vane into pocket" was invented by Johan Loof (Trollhattan, Sweden), Andrew Frampton (Trollhattan, Sweden) and Jocke Pettersson (Halmstad, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of bonding a composite vane to at least one support. The method includes positioning an end of a vane within a support, causing an adhesive to flow between the vane and the support from an inlet to an outlet, and reversing the flow of adhesive from the outlet towards the inlet."
The patent was filed on July 14, 2020, under Application...