US Patent Issued to Stratasys on Oct. 28 for "Additive manufacturing process using a building material that contains metal-oxide coated mica" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,094, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Stratasys Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Additive manufacturing process using a building material that contains metal-oxide coated mica" was invented by Derk Wandner (Odenthal, Germany), Ting Liu (Cologne, Germany) and Jonas Kuenzel (Leverkusen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of producing an article, comprising the step of producing the article by means of an additive manufacturing method from a build material comprising an aromatic polycarbonate and interference pigments and/or pearlescent pigments from the group of the metal oxide-coated micas. ...