US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for designing kinetic shapes" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,154, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for designing kinetic shapes" was invented by Ismet Handzic (Lutz, Fla.) and Kyle B. Reed (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a kinetic shape is designed by determining an applied force to be applied to an object that is to incorporate the kinetic shape, determining a reactive force that is desired to be produced in response to the applied force, inputting the applied force and the reactive force into a kinetic shape equation, and solving the equation to obtain the kinetic shape."

The patent was filed on S...