US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Nanyang Technological University on July 29 for "Elastic strain engineering of materials" (Russian, Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,731, issued on July 29, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.), Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Moscow) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Elastic strain engineering of materials" was invented by Ming Dao (West Roxbury, Mass.), Ju Li (Weston, Mass.), Zhe Shi (Cambridge, Mass.), Evgenii Tsymbalov (Moscow), Alexander Shapeev (Moscow) and Subra Suresh (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for training statistical models for the bandgap and energy dispersion of materials as a function of an applied strain, as well as uses of these trained statistical models for e...