US Patent Issued to VITO on Dec. 16 for "Method and system for manufacturing three- dimensional porous structures" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,771, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to VITO NV (Mol, Belgium).

"Method and system for manufacturing three- dimensional porous structures" was invented by Jasper Lefevere (Mol, Belgium), Bart Michielsen (Mol, Belgium), Wim Bouwen (Mol, Belgium), Steven Mullens (Mol, Belgium) and Marijn Gysen (Mol, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for manufacturing one or more three-dimensional porous structures (10). Filaments (2) are deposited on a support in a predetermined interconnected arrangement in a plurality of stacked layers (11) for forming one or more porous structure with interconnected pores (15). A nozzle head...