ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,492, issued on July 1, was assigned to Goodrich Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Individual zone tension control" was invented by Cameron L. Martinez (Pueblo, Colo.) and Neil R. Ramsey (Pueblo, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling tension on textile material used in forming a preform is disclosed herein. The system includes a sensor and a controller, where the controller is configured to: receive a signal, from the sensor, indicative of a compressive force applied by the textile material feeding into the system; determine whether the compressive force is within range of a setpoint of the tension for the textile mater...