US Patent Issued to MATERIAS on Oct. 21 for "Process for making products of multi-gradient foamed polymeric material" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,655, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MATERIAS S.r.l. (Naples, Italy).

"Process for making products of multi-gradient foamed polymeric material" was invented by Ernesto Di Maio (Naples, Italy), Luigi Nicolais (Ercolano, Italy) and Fabrizio Errichiello (Naples, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for manufacturing products made of foamed polymeric material, comprising the following steps: generating, via software, a virtual model (M) of a product to be manufactured in a solid foamable polymeric material; performing a topological optimization via software of the virtual model (M) in order to obtain an optimized virtual mod...