US Patent Issued to Wabash National on June 24 for "Reinforced preforms for optimized composite structures" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,903, issued on June 24, was assigned to Wabash National LP (Lafayette, Ind.).

"Reinforced preforms for optimized composite structures" was invented by Travis S. McCloud (Malabar, Fla.), Scott M. Lewit (Indialantic, Fla.) and Josh Hagan (Indialantic, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite structure of a cargo vehicle and a method of making the same are disclosed, where the composite structure includes one or more reinforced beams. Each of the reinforced beams includes an inner core surrounded by an outer layer and one or more reinforcing structures extending through the inner core. Each of the one or more reinforcing structur...