US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on July 22 for "Additive manufacturing of thermosetting resins via direct ink writing and radio frequency heating and curing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,137, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Additive manufacturing of thermosetting resins via direct ink writing and radio frequency heating and curing" was invented by Anubhav Sarmah (Bryan, Texas), Ava Crowley (College Station, Texas), Suchi Desai (College Station, Texas), Gabriel Zolton (Kingwood, Texas) and Micah J. Green (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a method of direct ink writing (DIW). In general, the method includes extruding a resin from a print head, applying radio frequency (RF) heating to t...