US Patent Issued to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM on June 17 for "Methods and systems for making tilted and curved structures with high aspect ratios" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,347, issued on June 17, was assigned to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (Lubbock, Texas).

"Methods and systems for making tilted and curved structures with high aspect ratios" was invented by Serdar Gorumlu (Lubbock, Texas) and Burak Aksak (Lubbock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and apparatus for an improved gripping device comprises a substrate and a curved microplate formed on the substrate. In certain embodiments, the system further comprises an array of curved microplates formed on the substrate further comprising a plurality of aligned rows of the curved microplates formed on the substrate and a plurality o...