US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) on Feb. 10 for "Method and apparatus for manufacturing composite material" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,960, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for manufacturing composite material" was invented by Sang Won Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Sang Jae Yoon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Young Bin Park (Ulsan, South Korea), Woo Seok Ji (Ulsan, South Korea), Soo Chang Kang (Ulsan, South Korea) and Seong Woo Im (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a composite material through a wet compression molding (WCM) process is disclosed. The in...