US Patent Issued to GelSight on Aug. 4 for "Gel compositions with tunable hardness" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,364, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GelSight Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Gel compositions with tunable hardness" was invented by F. Richard Cottrell (Westport, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gel compositions have a tunable hardness controlled by exposure to an external stimulus. Further disclosed herein are methods for making such gel compositions and devices that use such gel compositions. In one aspect, the gel compositions can be used to prepare physical 3-D replicas of the topography of a target surface."

The patent was filed on Oct. 3, 2022, under Application No. 17/959,007.

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