US Patent Issued to National Taiwan University of Science and Technology on March 25 for "Crystal structures inspired tessellations to generate multi-material properties in lattice structures with 3D printing" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,812, issued on March 25, was assigned to National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Crystal structures inspired tessellations to generate multi-material properties in lattice structures with 3D printing" was invented by Chinmai Bhat (Taipei, Taiwan), Ajeet Kumar (Taipei, Taiwan) and Jeng-Ywan Jeng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The metallic crystal structures inspired edge-to-edge tessellations and a tessellation based lattice structures are disclosed. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention, basic unit lattice cells are stacked and connected to constitute a three-dime...