ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,337, issued on April 22, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Spiral sheet product and method of manufacturing the same via additive manufacturing" was invented by Wen See Tan (Singapore), Jia An (Singapore), Tzyy Haur Chong (Singapore) and Chee Kai Chua (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a method of manufacturing a spiral sheet product via an additive manufacturing process, the method comprising: obtaining an electronic file representing a geometry of the spiral sheet product; and controlling an additive manufacturing apparatus to manufacture, via the additi...