US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on Oct. 21 for "Robust versatile monolithic resistive system for tailored heating" (California, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,962, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Robust versatile monolithic resistive system for tailored heating" was invented by Jonathon Robert Heinrich (Albuquerque, N.M.), Frans Hendrik Ebersohn (Palmdale, Calif.) and Randall James Sovereign (Santa Clarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monolithic heating element is provided. In one embodiment, the heating element includes a monolithic structure that is not a filament and a plurality of electrodes attached to the monolithic structure. Application of an electric current between the plurality of electrodes generates heat in the monolithic ...