US Patent Issued to JILIN UNIVERSITY on April 8 for "External, numerically controlled, rapid reconfigurable surface mold and forming method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,173, issued on April 8, was assigned to JILIN UNIVERSITY (Changchun, China).

"External, numerically controlled, rapid reconfigurable surface mold and forming method thereof" was invented by Qigang Han (Changchun, China), Yuanhao Wang (Changchun, China), Zhiwu Han (Changchun, China), Bo Li (Changchun, China) and Ziqin Wang (Changchun, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an external, numerically controlled, rapid reconfigurable surface mold and forming method thereof In this mold, an external shape-adjusting component is composed of a height-regulating rod, a motor, and a sliding guide rail module. The height-regulating ...