US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Dec. 16 for "Method for including voids in polymer filaments for FDM printing" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,772, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method for including voids in polymer filaments for FDM printing" was invented by Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Ties Van Bommel (Horst, Netherlands) and Stefan Willi Julius Gruhlke (Baesweiler, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for producing a 3D item by means of fused deposition modelling, the method comprising a 3D printing stage comprising layer-wise depositing 3D printable material, to provide the 3D item comprising 3D printed material, wherein the 3D item comprises layers of 3D printed...