US Patent Issued to Desktop Metal on Aug. 26 for "Polymer-synthesizing binder compositions for additive fabrication and related methods and compositions" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,502, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Desktop Metal Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Polymer-synthesizing binder compositions for additive fabrication and related methods and compositions" was invented by Robert J. Nick (Pepperell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for fabricating sinterable metallic parts by coating a metal powder with a first material, and by depositing a binder composition onto the metal powder that contains a second material, then causing the first and second materials to react to form a polymer. The first and second materials may be selected so that they combine to produce a desired polym...