ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,890, issued on May 20, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"Additive manufacturing of metal films" was invented by Zhi Zhao (Mesa, Ariz.), Chao Wang (Chandler, Ariz.) and Yu Yao (Chandler, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reflectors for concentrated solar power as well as systems and methods for additively manufacturing the reflectors is provided. The disclosed method can directly print metal films from an aqueous precursor solution onto a substrate with little to no post-fabrication treatment to achieve highly reflective surfaces with low surface roughness. The meth...