US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on Feb. 25 for "Slicer systems for generating a molecular dynamic graded lattice structure and their application to additive manufacturing" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,603, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Slicer systems for generating a molecular dynamic graded lattice structure and their application to additive manufacturing" was invented by Seokpum Kim (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Ahmed Arabi Hassen (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Lonnie J. Love (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Vlastimil Kunc (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Slicer system for generating molecular dynamic graded lattice structures that can be used as infill for additively manufactured articles. Molecular dynamically generated lattice infill is based on force balancing a node distribution instead of a circl...