ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,517, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Matrix Module GmbH (Dortmund, Germany).

"Spacer structure, sandwich construction with a spacer structure of this kind and method for producing a spacer structure of this kind" was invented by Maximilian Scherff (Dortmund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spacer structure for a sandwich construction, formed from a material web which is provided with a plurality of cuts and which has a material web plane as a first plane, wherein, by forming the material web, at least one support platform is formed in portions which is spaced at a distance from the first plane and is arranged in a second ...