ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,891, issued on March 18, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fiber feeding device, method of laminating fibers and method of molding composite material" was invented by Tomoyoshi Kuniya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber feeding device includes rollers, a brake and a belt conveyor. The rollers guide feeding out of tapes. The tapes are arrayed without overlapping the tapes in a width direction. The brake stops first feeding out of a first tape. The belt conveyor feeds out second feeding out of a second tape. The second tape is guided by a selected roller. The second tape is fed out by being sandwiched between the select...