US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Feb. 4 for "Low-defect fabrication of composite materials" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,206, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Low-defect fabrication of composite materials" was invented by Jeonyoon Lee (Cambridge, Mass.), Brian L. Wardle (Lexington, Mass.) and Diana Jean Lewis (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for the fabrication of composite materials are generally described. Certain inventive methods and systems can be used to fabricate composite materials with few or no defects. According to certain embodiments, composite materials are fabricated without the use of an autoclave. In some embodiments, composite materials are f...