Illinois company given license to TetraLattice technology
By KATHLEEN GALLAGHER
kgallagher@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Sept. 22, 2008
Some universities knock on many doors to find companies to license their patents.
Milwaukee School of Engineering didn’t knock on even one. An Elgin, Ill., company found the Milwaukee university instead.
MSOE said Monday it has completed its first license for a patent.
The school’s rapid prototyping lab agreed to give an exclusive license for certain applications of its TetraLattice technology to DSM Somos, a subsidiary of DSM Desotech Inc.
“I’m not out marketing; they came to us. They know us because our reputation in rapid prototyping is quite wide,” said Tom Bray, MSOE’s dean of applied research.
The school’s TetraLattice technology can take computer drawings and create complex, three-dimensional structures with interiors made of sturdy lattices rather than solid material.
Watching the technology work is like watching an object appear to rise out of liquid, Bray said.
