US Patent Issued to Iowa State University Research Foundation on Oct. 6 for "Programmable adhesion using nonlinear kirigami structures" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,510, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Programmable adhesion using nonlinear kirigami structures" was invented by Michael D. Bartlett (Blacksburg, Va.) and Dohgyu Hwang (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an adhesive system comprising a fabricated structure having alternating regions that are unpatterned and patterned along its longitudinal length. Patterned regions have at least one subregion with a non-linear cut relative to the transverse direction across the width of the structure. The geometry, location of the subregion(s), number o...