ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,877, issued on March 31, was assigned to De-Ice Technologies Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).
"De-icing systems" was invented by Alexandru Bratianu-Badea (Boston), Ruben Toubiana (Cambridge, Mass.), Christopher Buenrostro (Lexington, Mass.) and Sean David Kropp (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure can be embodied in a systems for heating an exterior surface of a bulk medium. In one example, the system includes two or more coupling strips spaced apart from one another and attached to the bulk medium. Each of the coupling strips has a multi-layer structure extending along a surface of the bulk me...