US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Aug. 18 for "Fabrication of three-dimensional kirigami structures with tunable properties" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,080, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Fabrication of three-dimensional kirigami structures with tunable properties" was invented by Samuel Eli Calisch (Cambridge, Mass.) and Neil A. Gershenfeld (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a structural honeycomb includes cutting and folding a substrate sheet according to predetermined cutting and folding patterns and fold angles that cause the sheet to form a honeycomb having cells that each have at least one face abutting, or nearly abutting, the face of another cell. The honeycomb is then stabilized...