ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,605, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Method for 3D printing of a thermally conductive 3D item" was invented by Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Ties Van Bommel (Horst, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a 3D item (100) by means of fused deposition modelling (FDM), the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a shell component (5') comprising a thermoplastic 3D printable shell material having a shell melting temperature (Tms) and/or a shell glass transition temperature (Tgs); b) providing a core...