US Patent Issued to MODUMETAL on Feb. 18 for "Application of laminate and nanolaminate materials to tooling and molding processes" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,869, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MODUMETAL INC. (Snohomish, Wash.).

"Application of laminate and nanolaminate materials to tooling and molding processes" was invented by Christina Ann Lomasney (Seattle) and Guohua Li (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide molds made by additive manufacturing coupled with electrodeposition. Such methods comprise subjected a workpiece to one or more deposition process(es), such as electrodeposition, that provide a coating that possesses desirable chemical, physical, and/or mechanical properties. In some embodiments, the methods further compri...