ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,989, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Method for producing a part from a woven material taking the off-centering into account" was invented by Gael Robert Grail (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Sylvain Mousillat (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for creating a component from a preform having a network of fibers having, after the shaping of the preform, an out-of-register angle. The methods include: defining an orthogonal local frame of reference, defining a natural local frame of reference, defining a linked frame of reference, expressing a tensor of the stif...