US Patent Issued to MEGGITT AEROSPACE on April 29 for "Induction heated tooling and methods of using the same" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,888, issued on April 29, was assigned to MEGGITT AEROSPACE Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Induction heated tooling and methods of using the same" was invented by Ka Yan Law (Southampton, Great Britain) and Cameron Malcolm Graham Ross (Crick, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of curing a part in a mold using induction heated tooling is provided. In preferred embodiments, the method comprises placing a material that may be cured with pressure and heat in tooling made from a non-metallic material wherein the tooling includes a mold cavity that forms the part. Creating an electro-magnetic field across the tooling usi...