US Patent Issued to The Boeing on April 29 for "Inductively heated slip sheet and methods of using" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,887, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Inductively heated slip sheet and methods of using" was invented by Marc R. Matsen (Seattle), Karl Marius Nelson (Issaquah, Wash.) and Bret Alan Mcginness Voss (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An induction curing system comprises a slip sheet and a power supply. The slip sheet comprises a layup surface configured to receive a composite material, a tool interface surface configured to interface with an upper surface of a tool, a rigid body extending between the layup surface and the tool interface surface, and an induction coil circuit within the rigid body of t...