"Miura" is the name of the astrophysicist. "Ori" (折り) just means "fold", as in "origami" = "fold+paper".

Thank you!

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.

https://theartian.com/ruth-asawa-patent-collaboration/

Don't get hung up on "patent". You can't patent an idea, you patent a specific implementation of an idea.

The 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.

Don’t get hung up on “hung up”. Time goes by so slowly.

Don't.

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He 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.

"To reduce human errors in his experiments, Wu opted to use a scoring machine to accurately fold the origami patterns."

Being able to hold 10x the weight of paper doesn't sound so impressive that it would require an astrophysicist to invent it.

I 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

lol

that makes way more sense

not enough coffee bcak

Problem Exists Between Coffee And Keyboard? I can relate. :D

i hear he didn't even produce the paper himself