ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,743, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VICIS IP LLC (New York).

"Microlattice layers" was invented by John Cagle (Seattle), Per Reinhall (Seattle), Derek Wallin (Seattle), Jason Neubauer (Seattle), Valerie Carricaburu (Seattle), Bertrand Didier (Seattle) and Andre Stone (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional microlattice layer comprising a plurality of interconnected filaments extending along at least three different directions from a plurality of nodes. The microlattice layer may further comprise at least one material layer extending laterally between and interconnecting at least two or more nodes. The at lea...