US Patent Issued to POLY-MED on March 17 for "Macromers and compositions for photocuring processes" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,347, issued on March 17, was assigned to POLY-MED INC. (Anderson, S.C.).

"Macromers and compositions for photocuring processes" was invented by Michael Aaron Vaughn (Anderson, S.C.) and Prabhjot Saini (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds and compositions are provided which are useful in additive printing, particularly additive printing techniques such as stereolithography (SLA) wherein a macromer is photopolymerized to form a manufactured article. Representative compounds comprise a polyaxial central core (CC) and 2-4 arms of the formula (A)-(B) or (B)-(A) extending from the central core, where at least one of ...