US Patent Issued to University of South Carolina on Sept. 16 for "Ceramic Kelvin foam with geometry optimized for hydrostatic loading" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,594, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to University of South Carolina (Columbia, S.C.).

"Ceramic Kelvin foam with geometry optimized for hydrostatic loading" was invented by Andrew Gross (Columbia, S.C.) and Fakhreddin Emami (Cayce, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are cellular materials comprised of a 3D periodic network of beams with open-cell Kelvin foam (truncated octahedron) that have particular cross-sectional geometries that resist buckling while also suppressing failure of the base material when the cellular material is subjected to hydrostatic loading."

The patent was filed on Nov. 17, 2023, under Appli...