ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,082, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Stratasys Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Additive manufacturing of radiological phantoms" was invented by Daniel Dikovsky (Ariel, Israel), Diana Ravich (Natania, Israel), Avraham Levy (Petach-Tikva, Israel) and Ben Klein (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A formulation usable as a modeling material formulation in additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional object and additive manufacturing methods utilizing same are provided. The formulation comprises one or more curable materials; and a radiopaque material, and features, when hardened, a CT number of at least 100 HU at 70 kV. Objects...