US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on June 17 for "3D printing of a reflector using polymer filled with metal coated glass or mica particles and reflector obtainable thereby" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,366, issued on June 17, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"3D printing of a reflector using polymer filled with metal coated glass or mica particles and reflector obtainable thereby" was invented by Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Loes Johanna Mathilda Koopmans (Soerendonk, 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 3D printing a 3D item (10), the method comprising providing a filament (320) of 3D printable material (201) and printing during a printing stage said 3D printable material (201), to pro...