ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,156, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Mold for manufacturing a turbine engine fan casing from a composite material" was invented by Hubert Jean Marie Fabre (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Raoul Jaussaud (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Paul Terry (Franklin, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mold for manufacturing a turbomachine fan casing of composite material, includes a mandrel around which a fibrous preform of the fan casing is to be wound; counter-mold angular sectors assembled on the external contour of the mandrel which are intended to close the mold and to compact the fibrous preform wound on th...