ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,010, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Methods of manufacture for composite blades" was invented by George Alan Salisbury (East Hampton, Conn.) and Royce E. Tatton (Shelley, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing composite blades comprises: laying up a pre-impregnated composite material to form a pre-impregnated composite structure; vacuum bagging the pre-impregnated composite structure between a first pressure plate and a second pressure plate; consolidating and curing the pre-impregnated composite structure to form a fiber-reinforced composite structure; and machining an over...