US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on July 29 for "3D printed susceptor for rapid indirect RF heating" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,199, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"3D printed susceptor for rapid indirect RF heating" was invented by Alan G. Jacobs (Rockville, Md.) and Boris N. Feigelson (Springfield, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "RF susceptors manufactured by means of 3D printing. 3D-printed susceptors in accordance with the invention include susceptors having solid or mesh walls, where the susceptors are in the form of hollow cylinders, pyramids, spheres, hemispheres, ellipsoids, paraboloids, toroids, or prisms; flat planes; or other hollow ...