ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,722, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to spherene AG (Zurich, Switzerland).
"Method of additively manufacturing a minimal surface structure" was invented by Ralph Baertschi (Zurich, Switzerland), Christian Waldvogel (Zurich, Switzerland) and Rasmus Joergensen (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of additively manufacturing a minimal surface structure of a three-dimensional article includes a computer executing the steps of recording, in the computer, an envelope of the three-dimensional article; generating a density field across a volume enclosed by the envelope with densities of the density field correspondi...