ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,576, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Los Angeles).

"Methods and apparatus for additively manufactured endoskeleton-based transport structures" was invented by Kevin Robert Czinger (Santa Monica, Calif.), Broc William Tenhouten (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Stuart Paul Macey (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), David Charles O'Connell (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Jon Paul Gunner (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.), Antonio Bernerd Martinez (El Segundo, Calif.) and Narender Shankar Lakshman (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an additively manufactured trans...