US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on June 10 for "Additive manufacturing with curable compositions" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,183, issued on June 10, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Additive manufacturing with curable compositions" was invented by Andrew Jackson Boydston (Middleton, Wis.) and Chang-Uk Lee (Verona, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for additive manufacturing are provided. In embodiments, such a method comprises illuminating a photothermal base with light, the photothermal base comprising a photothermal material and mounted in an additive manufacturing system to form a first interface between a surface of the photothermal base and a curable composition comprising thermally curable components, w...