US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY on May 5 for "On-demand scalable nano-scale 3D printing system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,672, issued on May 5, was assigned to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Alexandria, Va.).

"On-demand scalable nano-scale 3D printing system" was invented by Kyoo D. Jo (Champaign, Ill.), Sungmin Hong (Champaign, Ill.), Yin Song (Champaign, Ill.), Donald M. Cropek (Seymour, Ill.), Seung J. Oh (Champaign, Ill.) and Hyunjung Anna Kim (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a 3D printing system includes: a stage on which a substrate is disposed; first and second syringe pumps; first and second syringes; a hydrodynamic flow focusing nozzle having a central channel coupled to the...