ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,166, issued on April 15, was assigned to Carbon Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Reversible thermosets for additive manufacturing" was invented by Justin Poelma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jason P. Rolland (San Carlos, Calif.), Rick Hubertus Nicolas Curvers (San Francisco) and Joseph M. DeSimone (Monte Sereno, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method of recycling additively manufactured articles or recovered coating material that comprises a crosslinked polymer formed from a single-cure resin comprising a reactive blocked prepolymer, into a regenerated resin useful for additive manufacturing. Recyclable light-polymeriza...