ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,911, issued on April 29, was assigned to XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY (Xi'an, China).
"3D printing method for an impact-resistance gradient complex part" was invented by ChunMing Niu (Xi'an, China), MeiPing Li (Chengdu, China), QiPing He (Chengdu, China), Jun Li (Xi'an, China), Fan Jiang (Xi'an, China), ZhiHui Li (Xi'an, China), Xin Ji (Xi'an, China), ZhaoHai Meng (Chengdu, China) and ShunXiang Gong (Chengdu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printing method for an impact-resistant gradient complex part containing a hollow ceramic sphere complex, wherein the method includes the following steps: 1) designing the size and shape of ...