US Patent Issued to X-Celeprint, LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. on Oct. 28 for "Variable stiffness modules" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,706, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to X-Celeprint Ltd. (Dublin) and LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG (Furth, Germany).

"Variable stiffness modules" was invented by Ronald S. Cok (Rochester, N.Y.), Gabriele Roithmeier (Nuremberg, Germany), Christian Schulz (Furth, Germany) and Michael Scharfenberg (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable-stiffness module includes a rigid structure having a first stiffness, an intermediate substrate having a second stiffness less than the first stiffness, and a flexible substrate having a third stiffness less than the second stiffness. The rigid structure is disposed on the interm...