US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on April 8 for "High-permeability composite prepreg constructions and methods for making the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,191, issued on April 8, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"High-permeability composite prepreg constructions and methods for making the same" was invented by Steven Nutt (Irvine, Calif.), Lessa Grunenfelder (Los Angeles), Timotei Centea (Venice, Calif.), Mark Anders (Los Angeles), William Thomas Edwards (Fullerton, Calif.) and Sarah Grace Katz Schechter (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems for making prepregs are disclosed. A method may include depositing a resin material onto a surface of a fiber bed and forming a number of discrete resin regions thereon. A dist...