ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,486, issued on Feb. 10.
"Additive manufacturing of vinyl, photocrosslinkable polymers" was invented by Timothy C. Boire (Houston), Jordan S. Miller (Houston), Bagrat Grigoryan (Houston) and Candice Sears (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various precursor solutions and methods of 3D printing and other additive manufacturing approaches are provided for the manufacture of articles using photocrosslinkable vinyl shape memory polymers. In various aspects, articles are manufactured by a process comprising (i) exposing a precursor solution to an intensity and frequency of light to initiate photo-polymerization of the precursor soluti...