US Patent Issued to Spirit AeroSystems on Sept. 9 for "Method of forming composites by joule heating of enveloping metallic sheets" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,618, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Spirit AeroSystems Inc. (Wichita, Kan.).

"Method of forming composites by joule heating of enveloping metallic sheets" was invented by Kerrick Dando (Wichita, Kan.), Rahbar Nasserrafi (Wichita, Kan.), Mark Anthony Wadsworth (Wichita, Kan.) and Gerald Hicks (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a complex-shaped composite part, including the steps of applying a metallic sheath around a composite laminate workpiece and applying an electric current through the metallic sheath to heat the workpiece. The metallic sheath may be sealed around the composite laminate wo...