US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Jan. 27 for "Multi-piece assembly for a tubular composite body" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,193, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Multi-piece assembly for a tubular composite body" was invented by Jared Mark Paulson (Fort Worth, Texas), Mark Mays (Bedford, Texas) and Michael Christopher Burnett (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for two or more cured composite assemblies that are bonded together to form a tubular composite structure, wherein each of the cured composite assemblies do not have a tubular shape. The tubular composite structure may form a spar for an aerodynamic component, for example. The two or more c...