It's apparently a partnership with a big industrial automation company [1]. Perhaps they filed the patent? It sounds like the sort of thing a big corp would try

It's apparently a partnership with a big industrial automation company [1]. Perhaps they filed the patent? It sounds like the sort of thing a big corp would try. There is another group doing this, but seem to be unrelated [2]. If there is a patent, I can't find it anywhere (I tried the US and Aus). Nothing obvious under the author's name, or "vanilla" or "geodesic" in the Australian repository. Quite annoying, this is one of those stories that looks really interesting, but all you can find is the regurgitated press release from all the news companies that picked it up. [1] https://www.se.com/au/en/about-us/press/news/2019/newcastle-vanilla-dome.jsp https://www.se.com/au/en/about-us/press/news/2019/newcastle-... [2] http://vanillaaustralia.com/about-us/ http://vanillaaustralia.com/about-us/