US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for employing for forming and patterning flexible material" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,213, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for employing for forming and patterning flexible material" was invented by Steven Embleton (Austin, Texas) and Travis C. North (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A member may include a flexible material with thickness significantly smaller than that of other dimensions of the flexible material and at least one localized structure patterned within the flexible material, the at least one localized structure having a negative Poisson's ratio, such that when the member is mechanically coupled to a second structure using mech...