ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,898, issued on March 18, was assigned to Polyceed Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Method to fabricate laminate devices using printed interlayers" was invented by Susana J. Castillo (Tucson, Ariz.), Anoop Agrawal (Tucson, Ariz.) and Jason Kyle Smith (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and materials to fabricate laminated devices are disclosed, particularly the laminates where the interlayer is deposited by 3d printing (or also called additive manufacturing process). In particular, emphasis is placed on the fabrication of electrooptical devices, including electrochromic, thermochromic and liquid crystal devices. In the elect...