ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,204, issued on July 28, was assigned to Entegris Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Additive manufactured articles having passivated surfaces and related methods" was invented by Carlo Waldfried (Middleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments relate to additive manufactured articles having passivated surfaces and related methods. The methods may comprise forming a three-dimensional (3D) article by additive manufacturing to obtain an additive manufactured 3D article comprising a magnesium component. The method may further comprise exposing the additive manufactured 3D article to a reactive gas phase comprising a fluorine comp...