ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,434, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PPG Industries Ohio Inc. (Cleveland).

"Methods of making chemically resistant sealing components" was invented by Cynthia Kutchko (Pittsburgh), Eric S. Epstein (Pittsburgh), Bryan W. Wilkinson (Pittsburgh), Zhisong Huang (San Dimas, Calif.), Sean J. Manion (Los Angeles) and Kerianne M. Dobosz (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sealing components having complex shapes and smooth surfaces are may be fabricated using coreactive three-dimensional printing. More specifically the invention relates to chemically resistant sealing components and methods of making said sealing components using thr...