US Patent Issued to STRATASYS on May 20 for "3D-printed elastic products reinforced by means of continuous fibres and having asymmetrical elastic properties" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,021, issued on May 20, was assigned to STRATASYS INC. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"3D-printed elastic products reinforced by means of continuous fibres and having asymmetrical elastic properties" was invented by Dirk Achten (Leverkusen, Germany), Nicolas Degiorgio (Krefeld, Germany), Jonas Kuenzel (Leverkusen, Germany) and Thomas Buesgen (Leverkusen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a fibre-reinforced 3D-printed elastic product (1, 3, 4, 7, 10, 12), wherein the product comprises a weight proportion of less than=50% of a polymer having a mean molecular weight of less than=5000 g/mol, measured by means...