US Patent Issued to Stratasys on May 12 for "Water dispersible polymer for use in additive manufacturing" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,161, issued on May 12, was assigned to Stratasys Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Water dispersible polymer for use in additive manufacturing" was invented by William R. Priedeman Jr. (Long Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water dispersible sulfopolymer for use as a material in the layer-wise additive manufacture of a 3D part made of a non water dispersible polymer wherein the water dispersible polymer is a reaction product of a metal sulfo monomer, the water dispersible sulfo-polymer being dispersible in water resulting in separation of the water dispersible polymer from the 3D part made of the non water dispersible polymer." ...