US Patent Issued to KYUSHU UNIVERSITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY on June 30 for "Fold line design method, design device, and non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,298, issued on June 30, was assigned to KYUSHU UNIVERSITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Corp. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Fold line design method, design device, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Kazuya Saito (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fold line design method is a method for folding a target member. The method includes: setting a ribbase on a plane along a main surface of the target member; designing a plurality of first fold lines each of which extend radially from the ribbase as a starting point, and in which a mountain fold line and a valley fold line are alternately disposed; and designing a pluralit...