ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,787, issued on March 25, was assigned to Goodrich Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Composite structures" was invented by Mark R. Gurvich (Middletown, Conn.), Georgios S. Zafiris (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Joyel M. Schaefer (Earlville, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a composite structure can be formed of or including a plurality of composite strips. The plurality of composite strips include one or more filler strips which can have at least one filler edge having a filler edge geometry between a first surface and second surface, the second surface being opposite the first surface....