Don't get hug up on "invented". Ruth Asawa registered for (1956) and received US patent 185,504 on June 16, 1959 at the suggestion of her professor, Buckminster Fuller.
replyDon't get hung up on "patent". You can't patent an idea, you patent a specific implementation of an idea.
replyThe boy experimented to find the optimal parameters (height, width, angles) for load bearing of that earlier invention.
So, the result of his work would warrant a new patent, of course with reference to all earlier patents of which his work is an improvement.
You can even spend time and money to acquire a patent and it still doesn’t guarantee profit. It’s called the Miura-ori even though it was patented decades earlier. In this case, the patent acts as a record emphasizing that it’s all been done before.
replyi hear he didn't even produce the paper himself
replyBeing able to hold 10x the weight of paper doesn't sound so impressive that it would require an astrophysicist to invent it.
replyI was more ready to accept the headline if it had been invented by the kid.
Are you telling me you can't roll up 10 origami papers and stand them on a reasonably stable origami pattern?
it's 10k, 10,000, not 10
replylol
replythat makes way more sense
not enough coffee bcak
Problem Exists Between Coffee And Keyboard? I can relate. :D
replyHe literally did fold all the folds himself. He didn't even get an LLM to reskin VS Code for him and apply to Y Combinator.
reply"Miura" is the name of the astrophysicist. "Ori" (折り) just means "fold", as in "origami" = "fold+paper".
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