US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 29 for "Methods of post-curing additive manufacturing parts using electron beams" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,915, issued on April 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods of post-curing additive manufacturing parts using electron beams" was invented by Christopher Michael Seubert (New Hudson, Mich.), Mark Edward Nichols (Saline, Mich.) and Ellen Cheng-chi Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a part includes 3D printing a photopolymerizable resin and forming a preformed part and subsequently post-curing the preformed part with electron beams. The preformed part may be cured via UV curing. A section of the preformed part post-cured with electron beams may have a thickness ...