ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,495, issued on April 21, was assigned to LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY LLC (Livermore, Calif.).
"Compliant suture-based joinery" was invented by Amy Wat (Oakland, Calif.), Gabriella King (Livermore, Calif.), James Cahill (Livermore, Calif.), Joshua Kuntz (Livermore, Calif.), Wyatt Du Frane (Livermore, Calif.), Marcus Worsley (Hayward, Calif.), Logan Bekker (Pleasanton, Calif.), Xiaojie Xu (Castro Valley, Calif.), Yici Sun (Atlanta) and Joshua Deotte (Livermore, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of forming joinery between components formed from dissimilar materials, and assemblies utilizing the joinery. The compone...