ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,050, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ETH Zurich (Zurich).

"Additive manufacturing phase separating compositions to prepare glasses and ceramics" was invented by David Moore (Basel, Switzerland), Lorenzo Barbera (Dubendorf, Switzerland), Kunal Masania (Zurich, Switzerland) and Andre R. Studart (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides additive manufacturing compositions, also referred as "inks" in the field of additive manufacturing, which can be fine-tuned with respect to porosity by varying the intensity of the photopolymerisation light source and which can further be used to obtain objects ...