US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Sept. 2 for "Predicting ceramic colloidal suspension stability for extrusion-based additive manufacturing" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,237, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Predicting ceramic colloidal suspension stability for extrusion-based additive manufacturing" was invented by Collin C. McClain (Columbia, Md.) and Michael P. Hunt (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for selecting an additive and/or solvent for a colloidal ceramic suspension includes measuring spin lattice T1 relaxation times by nuclear magnetic resonance for a ceramic-solvent pair and an additive-solvent pair, wherein the solvent is selected from a plurality of different solvents, and wherein the additive is selected from a plurali...