ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,780, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAFRAN CERAMICS (Le Haillan, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris) and UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX (Bordeaux, France).

"Method for coating short fibres" was invented by Arnaud Delehouze (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Eric Bouillon (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Nathalie Dominique Bertrand (Saint-Maixant, France), Alain Jean-Michel Guette (Le Bouscat, France) and Armine El Mansouri (Bordeaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coating fibres includes coating short fibres having an average length less than or equal to 5 mm by chemical vapour deposition in a fluidised be...