US Patent Issued to FLEX MEMORY VENTURES on March 3 for "Implantable objects fabricated by additive manufacturing and methods of fabricating the same" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,884, issued on March 3, was assigned to FLEX MEMORY VENTURES PTY LTD (Burwood, Australia).

"Implantable objects fabricated by additive manufacturing and methods of fabricating the same" was invented by Srinivasarao Lathabai (Wollongong, Australia), Meltem Yesim Gozukara (Acton, Australia), David James Bell Ritchie (Acton, Australia) and Kishore Venkatesan (Acton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable object (1000') and a method (100) of fabricating an implantable object is disclosed. The method (100) comprises melting a powder (210) comprising at least nickel and titanium with an energy source (220) and iteratively ...