US Patent Issued to Lumas Polymers on Dec. 23 for "Chain scission to make improved polymers for 3D printing" (Minnesota, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,542, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Lumas Polymers LLC (Chaska, Minn.).

"Chain scission to make improved polymers for 3D printing" was invented by Thomas Fry (Victoria, Minn.), Zachary Peterson (New Hope, Minn.), Levi Loesch (Minneapolis) and Luke Rodgers (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end capped condensation polymer may be formed by heating a condensation polymer in the presence of an end capping compound to form cleaved condensation polymer reacting at least a portion of the cleaved condensation polymer with the end capping compound to form the end capped condensation polymer. The end capped condensatio...