US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Feb. 17 for "Additive manufacturing powder and additively manufactured body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,945, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Additive manufacturing powder and additively manufactured body" was invented by Momoko Wakabayashi (Hachinohe, Japan) and Yasutaka Matsumoto (Suwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing powder includes: a metal powder; and a film provided on a particle surface of the metal powder and containing a compound derived from a coupling agent having a hydrophobic functional group. An average particle diameter is 3.0 micro metre or more and 30.0 micro metre or less, and a contact angle of water measured at 25deg C. by a Theta/2 method, in a state wher...