ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,091, issued on Feb. 17.
"Additive manufacturing system using interlinked repeating subunits" was invented by Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh (Wesley Chapel, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein relates to an additive manufacturing system and an input material that overcomes that need to heat and extrude solidifying materials to create a three-dimensional structure. The system arranges subunits of the input material into repeating, interlinked subunits that can be arranged to manufacture a three-dimensional structure that is flexible but also has sufficient structural integrity to retain a desired shape during the additive manufact...