ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,698, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris) and SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy-Villacoublay., France).

"Machinery for winding a fibrous textured material, and associated winding method" was invented by Sylvain Didier Leclercq (Moissy Cramayel, France), Quentin Roirand (Moissy Cramayel, France), Dominique Marie Christian Coupe (Moissy Cramayel, France), Thierry Patrick Chauvin (Moissy Cramayel, France) and Nicolas Tran (Moissy Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tooling for winding a fibrous fabric on a support, allowing gradual modification of the shape of the support as winding progresses, and includes compa...