ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,184, issued on July 15, was assigned to NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA (Taiyuan, China).

"Thermal compensation design and implementation method for a near-net-shape (NNS) molding of thermoset composite part based on temperature field and curing degree field" was invented by Yaqing Liu (Taiyuan, China), Qihui Chen (Taiyuan, China), Chaoyang Wu (Taiyuan, China) and Guizhe Zhao (Taiyuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal compensation design and implementation method for near-net-shape molding of a thermoset composite part based on temperature and curing degree fields is provided. A minimum symmetric unit model is established bas...