US Patent Issued to Zoltek on Sept. 2 for "System and method for guiding fibers" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,142, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Zoltek Corp. (Bridgeton, Mo.).

"System and method for guiding fibers" was invented by Maurice Geli (Chesterfield, Mo.) and Arpad Rumy (Saint Peters, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber guide that guides fibers in a fiber processing system. The fiber guide has a surface having apertures through which fibers can pass in a direction from an upstream side of the surface to a downstream side of the surface. The apertures include at least one pair of apertures adjacent to and spaced from one another. The inlet of the first aperture is offset from the inlet of the second aperture. The offset is...