ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,342, issued on April 15, was assigned to Beihang University (Beijing).

"Self-regulating electric heating film and preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Huawei Chen (Beijing), Yantong Zhu (Beijing), Zelinlan Wang (Beijing), Xiaolin Liu (Beijing), Zehui Zhao (Beijing) and Jichen Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a self-regulating electric heating film, including: an insulating isolation layer, an interdigital electrode arranged on the surface of the insulating isolation layer, a positive temperature coefficient coating covering the surface of a secondary electrode of the interdigi...