US Patent Issued to Zhejiang University City College, Zhejiang Province Institute of Architectural Design and Research on Aug. 26 for "Space curved reticulated shell structure formed by stacking and combining rhombic dodecahedrons and a construction method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,554, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Zhejiang University City College (Hangzhou, China) and Zhejiang Province Institute of Architectural Design and Research (Hangzhou, China).

"Space curved reticulated shell structure formed by stacking and combining rhombic dodecahedrons and a construction method thereof" was invented by Zhen Wang (Zhejiang, China), Yang Zhao (Zhejiang, China), Zhi Ding (Zhejiang, China), Chongan Pang (Zhejiang, China), Ruhao Wang (Zhejiang, China) and Haochuan Qu (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a space curved reticulated shell structure formed by stacking and combining rh...