US Patent Issued to 3D Systems on Aug. 26 for "Waxy build materials for three-dimensional printing applications" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,281, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to 3D Systems Inc. (Rock Hill, S.C.).

"Waxy build materials for three-dimensional printing applications" was invented by Bo Wu (Wilsonville, Ore.), John Brookfield (Newberg, Ore.) and Jule W Thomas Jr. (West Linn, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, waxy build material inks are described herein which, in some embodiments, exhibit desirable print quality and associated mechanical properties for three-dimensional printing applications. A build material ink, in some embodiments, comprises 20-40 wt. % rosin component, 5-35 wt. % non-polar wax component, and 40-65 wt. % alcohol wax compo...