US Patent Issued to Northeastern University on May 13 for "Variable morphing wing using surface actuated origami folds" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,948, issued on May 13, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston).

"Variable morphing wing using surface actuated origami folds" was invented by Moneesh Upmanyu (Boston) and Raman Vaidya (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Morphable active corrugate structure and aeronautical wings are provided herein including one or more skins or envelopes, and a sheet having independently actuable hinge domains attached to the one or more skins or envelopes and independently actuable facet domains, each of the hinge domains and facet domains configured with through-thickness differential expansion coefficients, wherein differential strain...