US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Jan. 28 for "Process of producing a surface-modified 3-dimensional article" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,574, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Process of producing a surface-modified 3-dimensional article" was invented by Andreas G. Herrmann (Munich) and Gioacchino Raia (Turkenfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of producing a surface-modified 3-dimensional article, the process comprising the steps of providing a radiation-curable composition, building-up a 3-dimensional article by radiation-curing the radiation-curable composition layer by layer, preferably by using a stereolithography or digital light processing unit, partially removing radiation-curable c...