US Patent Issued to Blockwise Engineering on June 3 for "Inductively heated mold system" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,967, issued on June 3, was assigned to Blockwise Engineering LLC (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Inductively heated mold system" was invented by Jeremiah J. Warriner (Tempe, Ariz.) and Tara E. Phelps (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductively heated mold system enables rapid heating of the mold and rapid cooling to reduce thermal cycling times by employing an inductive coil in a heater module that inductively heats a ferromagnetic layer configured on the mold body, such as around the outside perimeter of the mold body. A cooling channel may be configured between the inductive coil and the ferromagnetic layer on the mold body to allo...