US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on July 21 for "Fabrication and design of composites with architected layers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,173, issued on July 21, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Fabrication and design of composites with architected layers" was invented by Carlos M. Portela (Pasadena, Calif.), Andrey Vyatskikh (Irvine, Calif.) and Julia R. Greer (San Marino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a composite material system comprises: a structure having an architected three-dimensional geometry; wherein said three-dimensional geometry is monolithic and deterministic; and a matrix phase; wherein said matrix phase at least partially infiltrates said structure. In some embodiments, the three-dimensional g...