US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Georgia Tech Research on Oct. 20 for "Cold draw programmable grayscale digital light processing 3D printed shape-morphing structures and methods of forming the same" (Michigan, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,208, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Cold draw programmable grayscale digital light processing 3D printed shape-morphing structures and methods of forming the same" was invented by Yuyang Song (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Masato Tanaka (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Liang Yue (Atlanta) and Hang Qi (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shape-morphing structure includes a cold draw programmable grayscale digital light processing 3D printed unitary hinge component comprising at least one glassy state portion and at least one r...