ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,544, issued on July 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit) and COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (New York).

"Carbon fiber composite panel with integrated fault detection and health monitoring" was invented by Maria Q. Feng (New York), Venkateshwar R. Aitharaju (Troy, Mich.), Luke Demo (New York) and Eleonora Maria Tronci (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite panel includes a first carbon fiber layer and a first glass fiber layer. A first carbon fiber sensor includes a first plurality of carbon fiber tows. The composite panel includes a second glass fiber layer and a second carbon fiber layer. The first ca...