US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation, GM Global Technology Operations on Sept. 16 for "Phase transforming cellular materials" (Indiana, California, Texas, Illinois, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,475, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.) and GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Phase transforming cellular materials" was invented by Pablo Zavattieri (West Lafayette, Ind.), Yunlan Zhang (Foothill Ranch, Calif.), Nilesh Mankame (Ann Arbor, Mich.), David Restrepo (San Antonio), Gordon Jarrold (Chicago) and Maria Milian Velay-Lizancos (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase transformational cellular material, including a plurality of bistable cells, each respective bistable cell operationally connected to at least one other respective bistable cell. ...