US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, University of Southern California on May 26 for "Grid structures having glueless sleeve joints and methods of manufacturing and using the same" (American, Singaporean, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,853, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore) and University of Southern California.

"Grid structures having glueless sleeve joints and methods of manufacturing and using the same" was invented by Stephen W. Tsai (Honolulu), Dan Wang (Clementi, Singapore), Erik Kappel (Lindwedel, Germany), Bo Jin (Los Angeles) and Antonio Miravete (Lemoore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grid and skin assembly for use in a composite laminate structure is described. The assembly includes a metallic grid having a plurality of interse...