ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,052, issued on July 15, was assigned to ARKEMA FRANCE (Puteaux, France).

"Dimensionally stable acrylic alloy for 3-d printing" was invented by David Shin-Ren Liu (Bala Cynwyd, Pa.), Jack J. Reilly (Blue Bell, Pa.) and Mark A. Aubart (West Chester, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acrylic alloy composition that can be 3-D printed by a material extrusion additive manufacturing process, an acrylic filament that has a very uniform diameter useful in the extrusion additive manufacturing process, acrylic articles made from the acrylic alloy composition by a material extrusion additive process, and a material extrusion additive manufac...