US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on July 14 for "Methods of producing padding materials" (Indiana, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,888, issued on July 14, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Methods of producing padding materials" was invented by Michael J. Dziekan (Park Ridge, Ill.), Eric A. Nauman (West Lafayette, Ind.), Kevin G. Mclver (Lafayette, Ind.), Nicolas Leiva-Molano (Lafayette, Ind.), Jacob McGough (Battle Ground, Ind.) and Sean Bucherl (Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Padding materials capable of use as or incorporation into protective products, and methods of producing such padding materials. The padding material includes a base and an array of raised unit cells that individually protrude from a surfac...