US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on Feb. 3 for "Ultra-low interfacial tension support medium for high precision silicone 3D printing" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,675, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Ultra-low interfacial tension support medium for high precision silicone 3D printing" was invented by Thomas E. Angelini (Gainesville, Fla.), Jon P. Dobson (Gainesville, Fla.), Senthilkumar Duraivel (Gainesville, Fla.) and Brent S. Sumerlin (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the disclosure relates to a support material for 3D printing of soft materials having feature sizes greater than5 micro metre that persist over time, methods of 3D printing using the same, and articles that include soft matter c...