US Patent Issued to IHI on Nov. 18 for "Identification device, identification method, and identification program for identifying fiber layer in fiber-reinforced material" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,706, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Identification device, identification method, and identification program for identifying fiber layer in fiber-reinforced material" was invented by Takanori Kamagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Regarding to a fiber-reinforced material formed by deforming a reinforcing material composed of a plurality of fiber layers from an initial shape and molding into a predetermined shape, an identification device, an identification method, and an identification program generate a first data in which a physical quantity distribution inside the fiber-reinforced material is mapped...