ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,820, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alo, Canada).

"Perforations in a membrane for a lattice structure" was invented by James Andrew McCutcheon (Vancouver, Wash.) and David C. Woodlock (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system receives data representing a beam-based lattice structure and a membrane to be placed on the beam-based lattice structure, and identifies intersections of beams of the beam-based lattice structure with the membrane. The system identifies locations for perforations in the membrane to form a perforated membrane, the identified locations excluding the ...