ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,080, issued on June 3, was assigned to Metis Design Corp. (Boston).
"Multifunctional assemblies" was invented by Seth S. Kessler (Newton, Mass.), Gregory A. Thomas (San Francisco), Christopher T. Dunn (Salem, Mass.), Michael Borgen (Wilmington, Mass.) and Brian L. Wardle (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multifunctional assembly having a resistive element a conductive element in electrical communication with the resistive element, the conductive element defining at least one of a plurality of multifunctional zones of the resistive element, wherein the conductive element is configured to direct a flow of electricity ac...