ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,531, issued on July 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo) and AKITA UNIVERSITY (Akita, Japan).
"Heating device" was invented by Nobuyuki Kamihara (Tokyo), Naomoto Ishikawa (Tokyo), Kiyoka Takagi (Tokyo), Sota Kamo (Tokyo), Mikio Muraoka (Akita, Japan) and Yukihiro Yoshida (Akita, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating device includes a magnetic field heating coil that inductively heats a composite material by a magnetic field. The composite material has a length in a depth direction and a length in a width direction orthogonal to the depth direction. The magnetic field heating coil has a first coil part p...