ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,557, issued on June 24, was assigned to DyeMansion GmbH (Planegg, Germany).
"Device and method for treating the surface of molded parts" was invented by Philipp Kramer (Munich), Felix Ewald (Munich) and Tibor Naether (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for treating a surface of a molded part produced in a 3D printing method. In the method, the molded part is introduced into a pressure-tight container, negative pressure, preferably a vacuum to a large extent, is generated in the container after introducing the molded part, a solvent is heated up to a specified solvent temperature, and the heated solvent is intr...