US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on May 13 for "3D printing of thermoset polymers and composites" (Illinois, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,307, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"3D printing of thermoset polymers and composites" was invented by Jeffrey S. Moore (Savoy, Ill.), Scott R. White (Champaign, Ill.), Ian D. Robertson (Philadelphia), Nancy R. Sottos (Champaign, Ill.) and Jia E. Aw (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a novel method of 3D printing using frontal polymerization chemistry. This method enables the printing of tough, high quality thermosets in a short time with the option of adding fiber reinforcement. As such, it facilitates fabrication of m...