US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Method for generating planar expandable structure by adding hinged points and hinged rods" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,637, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Method for generating planar expandable structure by adding hinged points and hinged rods" was invented by Hui Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a systematic method for generating a planar expandable structure by adding hinged points and hinged rods based on uniform tessellation, including: establishing a database of planar uniform tessellation graphs; selecting, inputting a graph of arbitrarily size range, naming it Graph A; drawing a dual tessellation graph of the Graph A, and extracting a basic unit b ...