ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,697, issued on June 30, was assigned to Arkema France (Puteaux, France).

"Compositions and methods useful for forming sintered articles" was invented by David Liu (Bala Cynwyd, Pa.), William Wolf (Philadelphia) and Brendan Mcgrail (Phoenixville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sintered article may be formed from a composition containing at least sinterable thermoplastic particles and a curable (meth)acrylate resin component, wherein the sinterable thermoplastic particles are insoluble in the curable (meth)acrylate resin component at 25deg C. The curable (meth)acrylate resin component may be cured, thereby forming an intermediate...