ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 29 -- Albany Engineered Composites, Rochester, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (9,604,389) developed by two co-inventors for "pi-shaped preform with bias fibers." The co-inventors are Brock Gilbertson, Dover, New Hampshire, and Jonathan Goering, York, Maine.

The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 2012 (13/399,761). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnet . . .