US Patent Issued to Colorado State University Research Foundation on Feb. 11 for "Self-heating tooling device for curing of composites" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,864, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Self-heating tooling device for curing of composites" was invented by Mostafa Yourdkhani (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include a self-heating device. The device includes an electrically insulative layer, an electrically conductive layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The electrically insulative layer has a first surface and a second surface spaced apart from the first surface. The electrically conductive layer has a first surface and a second surface spaced apart from...