US Patent Issued to Manufacturing Systems on Dec. 2 for "Materials and methods of manufacture" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,119, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Manufacturing Systems Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Materials and methods of manufacture" was invented by Ashton Cyril Partridge (Auckland, New Zealand), Ali Hosseini (Auckland, New Zealand) and Andrew Leo Haynes (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An array includes a support substrate, surface structures protruding from a surface of the support substrate formed from or coated with a first material, a second material deposited on at least some of the surface structures such that the second material is in contact with the first material; and wherein the first material, the secon...