US Patent Issued to WESTLAKE UNIVERSITY on March 18 for "Curved origami-based metamaterial, manufacturing method of the same, curved origami-based haptic module and method for producing active mechanical haptics" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,903, issued on March 18, was assigned to WESTLAKE UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Curved origami-based metamaterial, manufacturing method of the same, curved origami-based haptic module and method for producing active mechanical haptics" was invented by Hanqing Jiang (Hangzhou, China), Zhuang Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Luoqian Emu (Hangzhou, China) and Zhenghao Xu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Curved origami-based meta-material, manufacturing method of the same, curved origami-based haptic module and a method for producing active mechanical haptics. The curved origami-based metamaterial includes a panel having a singl...