ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,713, issued on April 7, was assigned to Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).
"Three-dimensional freeze extrusion for the manufacture of homogeneous and graded rods and tubes" was invented by Ulrike G. K. Wegst (Hanover, N.H.), Kaiyang Yin (West Lebanon, N.H.), Claire Adner (Hanover, N.H.), Peyton Weber (Hanover, N.H.) and Amalie Hildebrandt Brynjulfsson (Hanover, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, the present disclosure pertains to a method of making a material. Generally, the method includes one or more of the following steps of: (1) placing a mixture having one or more components in a container; and (2) ext...