US Patent Issued to North Carolina State University on Dec. 16 for "Articulation system for a flash fire manikin" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,338, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Articulation system for a flash fire manikin" was invented by John Morton-Aslanis (Raleigh, N.C.), Roger L Barker (Raleigh, N.C.), A. Shawn Deaton (Raleigh, N.C.), Hai Bui (Raleigh, N.C.) and Mark Martin (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flash fire instrumented manikin articulation system designed to evaluate the thermal protective performance of protective clothing when exposed to flames. The flash fire instrumented manikin articulation system includes an instrumented manikin and an articulation system designed to simulate exposur...