US Patent Issued to CENTER FOR ADVANCED META-MATERIALS on March 18 for "Metastructure having zero elastic modulus zone and method for designing metastructure having zero elastic modulus zone" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,926, issued on March 18, was assigned to CENTER FOR ADVANCED META-MATERIALS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Metastructure having zero elastic modulus zone and method for designing metastructure having zero elastic modulus zone" was invented by Bong Kyun Jang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Se Jeong Won (Daejeon, South Korea), Hak Joo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Mo Lee (Nonsan-si, South Korea) and Kwang Seop Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a metastructure having a zero elastic modulus zone, which can experience constant stress in a predetermined strain zone, an...