ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,234, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Molding core for manufacturing a hollow OMC part" was invented by Pierre Jean Sallot (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Mirna Bechelany (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Nicolas Tran (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Molding core for manufacturing an OMC hollow aeronautical part, in particular a fan module part, including a composite material including on the one hand a first phase of formula Mn+1AlCn, where n=1 to 3, and M being a transition metal selected from the group consisting of titanium, niobium, chromium or zirconium, the composite material including on the o...