US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on May 20 for "Porous ceramics for additive manufacturing, filtration, and membrane applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,863, issued on May 20, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Porous ceramics for additive manufacturing, filtration, and membrane applications" was invented by Patrick Campbell (Oakland, Calif.), Sarah Baker (Dublin, Calif.), Maira R. Ceron Hernandez (Brentwood, Calif.), Jennifer Marie Knipe (Oakland, Calif.) and Joshuah K. Stolaroff (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink for three dimensional printing a ceramic material includes metal oxide nanoparticles and a polymer resin, where a concentration of the metal oxide nanoparticles is at least about 50 wt % of a total mass of the...