US Patent Issued to Formlabs on April 29 for "Use of dye-type polarizers in a photopolymer curing device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,913, issued on April 29, was assigned to Formlabs Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Use of dye-type polarizers in a photopolymer curing device" was invented by Andrew Goldman (Stow, Mass.), Hayley Whelan (Cambridge, Mass.), Henry Whitney (Weymouth, Mass.), Maxim Lobovsky (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mehmet Dogan (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curing system for an additive fabrication system includes a light source, a liquid crystal cell, and a first polarizer. The light source is configured to emit light at a wavelength suitable for curing a material. The liquid crystal cell is configured to receive the light from the light source...