US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on April 7 for "Three-dimensional printing of hydrophobic materials in fumed silica suspension" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,728, issued on April 7, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Three-dimensional printing of hydrophobic materials in fumed silica suspension" was invented by Yong Huang (Gainesville, Fla.), Yifei Jin (Gainesville, Fla.), Nevada J. Gellermann (Gainesville, Fla.) and Kaidong Song (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional (3D) printing methodology is disclosed for freeform fabrication of hydrophobic structures without the use of printed support structures. The build material is directly printed in and supported by a fumed silica-containing yield-stress support ba...