US Patent Issued to Inkbit on April 21 for "Hybrid additive manufacturing with dual phase-change materials" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,884, issued on April 21, was assigned to Inkbit LLC (Medford, Mass.).

"Hybrid additive manufacturing with dual phase-change materials" was invented by Javier Ramos (Brookline, Mass.), Richard Woudenberg (Burlington, Mass.) and Wojciech Matusik (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes manufacturing a kernel that comprises a quantity of a phase-change material and heating the thermoplastic past a softening temperature thereof. This softening temperature is greater than the phase-change material's melting temperature. The method continues with pressing this heated thermoplastic onto a contact surface of the ke...