US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on Feb. 3 for "Inverse origami design for soft robotic development" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,661, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Inverse origami design for soft robotic development" was invented by Dong Sun (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Qiqiang Hu (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inverse origami design for soft robotic development is described herein. A method as described herein can include determining, by a system comprising a processor, shape parameters corresponding to an input shape; generating, by the system based on the shape parameters, an origami crease pattern representative of the input shape, wherein the origami crease pattern comprises respective...