US Patent Issued to Desktop Metal on March 25 for "Compositions comprising a binder and a powder, and associated methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,769, issued on March 25, was assigned to Desktop Metal Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Compositions comprising a binder and a powder, and associated methods" was invented by Ilya L. Rushkin (Acton, Mass.), Yun Bai (Burlington, Mass.) and Shannon Lee Taylor (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to compositions comprising a binder and a metal powder, and associated methods. Some compositions provided include a polymer and a metal powder. Some compositions provided include a binder formulation and a metal powder. The binder formulation generally includes a first liquid and a polymer. The bin...