US Patent Issued to Singapore University of Technology and Design on Nov. 4 for "Freeform polymer precipitation (FPP) in microparticulate gels" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,194, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Singapore University of Technology and Design (Singapore).

"Freeform polymer precipitation (FPP) in microparticulate gels" was invented by Michinao Hashimoto (Singapore) and Rahul Karyappa (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein disclosed is a method of printing a 3D freeform structure in an embedding medium. The method includes providing an ink composition in a nozzle, wherein the ink composition includes a thermoplastic, a non-thermoplastic, a thermally degradable polymer, and/or a thermosensitive polymer, dissolved in a solvent; dispensing the ink composition through a nozzle into the...