US Patent Issued to Nippon Kornmeyer Carbon Group on April 21 for "Process for producing moulded articles from carbon or graphite by 3D printing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,490, issued on April 21, was assigned to Nippon Kornmeyer Carbon Group GmbH (Windhagen, Germany).

"Process for producing moulded articles from carbon or graphite by 3D printing" was invented by Torsten Kornmeyer (Konigswinter, Germany), David Klein (Hennef, Germany) and Michael Gerads (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for 3D printing articles made of carbon or graphite includes producing a flowable polymeric mixture from a UV permeable and polymerizable polymer or cellulose and a UV crosslinkable resin, admixing the polymeric mixture with sugar and/or cellulose until the mixture has a consistency such that it c...