US Patent Issued to US Government Represented by the Secretary of the Army on May 26 for "Functionally graded structures for impact absorption" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,753, issued on May 26, was assigned to US Government Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Functionally graded structures for impact absorption" was invented by Benjamin P. Fasel (East Bridgewater, Mass.), David S. Colanto (Natick, Mass.), Robert V. Dilalla (Walpole, Mass.) and Tony Kayhart (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A functionally graded structure for a protective device includes a plurality of lattice structures including at least a first lattice structure having a first geometry and a second lattice structure having a second geometry. The first lattice structure with the first geometry has a ...