US Patent Issued to ROLLS-ROYCE on June 3 for "Woven structure and method of manufacture" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,040, issued on June 3, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE plc (London).

"Woven structure and method of manufacture" was invented by Christopher D Jones (Bristol, Great Britain), Adam J Bishop (Bristol, Great Britain), Richard Hall (Bristol, Great Britain), Ian Buck (Loughborough, Great Britain) and Sarvesh Dhiman (Loughborough, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a composite component, including: weaving a multi-layer woven preform from warp and weft tows of fibre-reinforcement material, the woven preform includes: multi-layer weave including: plurality of weft tow layers; plurality of laterally-adjacent s...