US Patent Issued to Carbon on Aug. 12 for "Vapor spin cleaning of additively manufactured parts" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,114, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Carbon Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Vapor spin cleaning of additively manufactured parts" was invented by Bob E. Feller (San Mateo, Calif.), W. Ryan Powell (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mark O. Kaufman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cleaning residual resin from an additively manufactured object, includes: (a) enclosing an additively manufactured object in an inner chamber of a centrifugal separator, the additively manufactured object including a light polymerized resin with a surface coating of viscous, unpolymerized, residual resin; (b) flooding the chamber with a...