US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 25 for "Mechanical neural networks: architected materials that learn behaviors" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,078, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Mechanical neural networks: architected materials that learn behaviors" was invented by Jonathan Brigham Hopkins (Los Angeles), Erwin A.B. Mulder (Nieuwegein, Netherlands) and Ryan Hansen Lee (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam for use in a lattice of beams of a mechanical neural-network (MNN) which can form a metamaterial configured to learn a set of properties by exposure to continuous external loads. Each beam of the lattice is configured to change its stiffness in response to external load input. A lattice of the...