US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Methods and devices for biomimetic hygromorphic composite" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,478, issued on March 17, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"Methods and devices for biomimetic hygromorphic composite" was invented by Lining Yao (Pittsburgh), Danli Luo (Pittsburgh), Jianzhe Gu (Pittsburgh), Fang Qin (Pittsburgh) and Guanyun Wang (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention comprises an artificial seed device, a drilling process for the artificial seed device and a fabrication method for the artificial seed device."

The patent was filed on April 11, 2022, under Application No. 17/718,232.

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