ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,680, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Carbon Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.) and ADIDAS AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Particle coating methods for additively manufactured products" was invented by Aayush A. Shah (San Francisco), Kai Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Keith Michael Kirkwood (Lake Oswego, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of additively manufacturing an object having a particle surface coating thereon, using an intermediate object produced in an additive manufacturing process by light polymerization of a dual cure resin, the intermediate object having residual dual cure resin from which it was produced r...