US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 3 for "Motor-free method to 3D monolayer coatings" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,859, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Motor-free method to 3D monolayer coatings" was invented by Luat Thanh Vuong (Riverside, Calif.), Sophie Weiss (Riverside, Calif.), Frank Rodriguez (Riverside, Calif.) and Ji Feng (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed of three-dimensional (3D) free-form printing for coating free-form objects, the method including: arranging a free-form object in a Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) trough filed with a liquid, the LB trough designed based on a shape of the free-form object; arranging an LB film comprising a plu...