US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on Oct. 27 for "B-staging of pre-preg using capacitively-coupled electromagnetic heating method" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,808, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"B-staging of pre-preg using capacitively-coupled electromagnetic heating method" was invented by Aniruddh Vashisth (College Station, Texas) and Micah J. Green (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabrication processing a pre-preg material includes applying electromagnetic heating to a composition including a fiber and a resin. The electromagnetic heating is conducted with at least one fringing field capacitor utilizing radio frequency (RF) alternating current (AC) and controlling cross-linking of the resin ...