US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Sept. 30 for "High-rate manufacturing of thermoplastic composites with electrically and thermally conductive constituents" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,265, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"High-rate manufacturing of thermoplastic composites with electrically and thermally conductive constituents" was invented by Jan-Anders Mansson (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Jessica Ann Lavorata (Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method to form a thermoplastic composite with electrically and thermally conductive constituents. The method may include receiving a molten rod having a polymer composite core. The method may further include embedding the rod with at least one conductive wire. Embedding the rod with the at le...