US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Dec. 2 for "Reformable mandrel and method of making a composite part using a reformable mandrel" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,588, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Reformable mandrel and method of making a composite part using a reformable mandrel" was invented by Richard L. Fahey Jr. (St. Louis), Vincenzo Misuraca (Ballwin, Mo.) and Reed Searcy (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making a composite part using a reformable mandrel, including contouring a reformable mandrel; placing an uncured composite part on the reformable mandrel; curing the uncured composite part; and removing the reformable mandrel, wherein the reformable mandrel includes a core including a transitional state material having a tr...