US Patent Issued to WESTLAKE UNIVERSITY on Sept. 30 for "Origami-based contact members, devices and systems used for active mechanical haptics" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,949, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to WESTLAKE UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Origami-based contact members, devices and systems used for 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: "Origami-based contact members, devices and systems used for active mechanical haptics. The origami-based contact member includes a top plate, a bottom plate, and at least one piece of a curved origami-based metamaterial interposed therebetween, with its top end fixed to the top plate and its bott...