US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for through thickness reinforcement using roll-to-roll veil cloth" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,836, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for through thickness reinforcement using roll-to-roll veil cloth" was invented by Christopher C. Koroly (Spring Valley, Calif.), Katherine E. Waugh (Coronado, Calif.) and Vijay V. Pujar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a through thickness reinforcement process on a fibrous preform includes moving a plurality of needles from a retracted position to an extended position with respect to a housing. The method further includes penetrating a veil cloth and the fibrous preform with the plurality of needles, moving...