US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Colorado on Sept. 9 for "Photopolymerizable thermoplastics and methods of making and using same" (Colorado, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,283, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver).

"Photopolymerizable thermoplastics and methods of making and using same" was invented by Christopher N. Bowman (Boulder, Colo.), Marvin Dion Alim (Kirkland, Wash.), Matthew K. McBride (Boulder, Colo.), Kimberly Kay-Childress (Boulder, Colo.), Juan J. Hernandez (Longmont, Colo.) and Jeffrey W. Stansbury (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the disclosure relates to compositions comprising semicrystalline, linear photopolymers that possesses extraordinary mechanical properties for application in 3D printing. The phot...