US Patent Issued to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on Nov. 18 for "Woven quadrilateral mesh origami structures and related functional materials" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,670, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Woven quadrilateral mesh origami structures and related functional materials" was invented by Hongyu Yu (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Yongkai Li (Sai Kung, Hong Kong) and Xingru Chen (Sai Kung, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A woven quadrilateral mesh origami structure includes first linear sections of a foldable material positioned in a first orientation, the first linear sections including first creases formed into the first linear sections that define first quadrilateral segments of the first linear sections; and sec...