US Patent Issued to Stratasys on April 21 for "Additive manufacturing using materials that form a weak gel" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,703, issued on April 21, was assigned to Stratasys Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Additive manufacturing using materials that form a weak gel" was invented by Daniel Dikovsky (Ariel, Israel) and Nissim David (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A formulation usable in additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional object is provided. The formulation comprises one or more monofunctional curable material(s); one or more hydrophilic multifunctional curable material(s); and one or more water-miscible non-curable material(s), such that a total amount of the curable materials is 20% or less, by weight, and a weight ratio of a total we...