US Patent Issued to VITO on Oct. 14 for "Method and system for manufacturing three-dimensional porous structure" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,061, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VITO NV (Mol, Belgium).

"Method and system for manufacturing three-dimensional porous structure" was invented by Jasper Lefevere (Mol, Belgium), Bart Michielsen (Mol, Belgium) and Monika Kus (Mol, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for manufacturing three-dimensional porous structures. Filaments are deposited in a predetermined interconnected arrangement in a plurality of stacked layers for forming a porous structure with interconnected pores. Furthermore, the porous structure is subjected to a heat treatment in a heat chamber in order to reduce a moisture, solvent and/o...