US Patent Issued to Stratasys on July 29 for "Sacrificial additively manufactured molds for use in injection molding processes" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,728, issued on July 29, was assigned to Stratasys Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Sacrificial additively manufactured molds for use in injection molding processes" was invented by Jon Jessen (Vekso, Denmark), Lasse Guldborg Staal (Jyllinge, Denmark), Tanya H. Olsen (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark) and Thore Langholz (Kobenhavn, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sacrificial additively manufactured molds having a dissolvable material for use in thermoplastic injection molding processes at plastic melt temperatures in the range of 70-450 degrees C. and injection pressure in the range of 0.2-400 MPa. A method of producing a molded article using sa...