US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Sept. 16 for "Continuous and scalable 3D nanoprinting" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,311, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Continuous and scalable 3D nanoprinting" was invented by Xianfan Xu (West Lafayette, Ind.), Bryan William Boudouris (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Liang Pan (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rapidly printing 3D nanostructures arrangement, comprising a first photonic source configured to provide photoinitiation energy to a polymer medium via a dynamic light spatial modulator to an excited state to initiate polymerization, a second photonic source configured to selectively provide inhibition energy to the polymerized medium to...