US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Sept. 8 for "Methods and systems of obtaining patterned structures on surfaces" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,586, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Methods and systems of obtaining patterned structures on surfaces" was invented by Jason Hayes Nadler (Atlanta) and Katherine E. Copenhaver (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for producing arrays of free standing, three dimensional structures on material surfaces by establishing contact with a template, moving the template and the surface in contact relative to one another, inducing an increase in viscosity such that the structures are self-supported, and removing the template, leaving a negative of the template geometry at the tip of the obje...