US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on June 3 for "Conformable tooling systems and methods for complex contour composite preforms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,964, issued on June 3, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Conformable tooling systems and methods for complex contour composite preforms" was invented by Vijay V. Pujar (San Diego), Katherine E. Waugh (San Diego) and Christopher C. Koroly (Spring Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preform tooling arrangement includes a base plate comprising a male die surface and a stripper plate comprising a female die surface. A plurality of perforations are disposed in the base plate and/or the stripper plate. The stripper plate is moveable with respect to the base plate. The preform tooling arrangement is configured to...