US Patent Issued on May 12 for "Additive material integrated heater deposited or embedded within magnetostrictive oscillating ice detector sensor" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,784, issued on May 12.

"Additive material integrated heater deposited or embedded within magnetostrictive oscillating ice detector sensor" was invented by Jamison K. Roman (Elko New Market, Minn.), Matthew Webb (Lakeville, Minn.) and Jeremiah Schweitzer (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe head of a magnetostrictive oscillator includes a probe head body which includes a hollow cylindrical portion with a first end, a second end, a radially inner side, and a radially outer side. The probe head body further includes a hemispherical portion connected to the first end of the hollow cylindrical portion. The probe head fur...