US Patent Issued to STRUCTURED I on July 8 for "Manufacturing process for papermaking belts using 3D printing technology" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,878, issued on July 8, was assigned to STRUCTURED I LLC (Great Neck, N.Y.).

"Manufacturing process for papermaking belts using 3D printing technology" was invented by James E. Sealey II (Belton, S.C.), Byrd Tyler Miller IV (Easley, S.C.), Justin C. Pence (Williamston, S.C.), Taras Z. Andrukh (Greenville, S.C.) and Shane Ervin Hayes (Anderson, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A papermaking belt including zones of material laid down successively using a 3D printing process. The zones include at least a pocket zone configured to form three dimensional structures in a paper web by applying vacuum to pull the paper web against the pocke...