US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher on Feb. 10 for "Voxelated molecular patterning in 3-dimensional freeforms" (Pennsylvania, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,975, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher (Pittsburgh).

"Voxelated molecular patterning in 3-dimensional freeforms" was invented by Ravi Shankar Meenakshisundaram (Aspinwall, Pa.), Mohsen Tabrizi (Pittsburgh) and Taylor H Ware (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A four-dimensional ("4D")-printing or 4D-additive manufacturing method for producing anisotropic macroscopic structures and/or anisotropic macroscopic materials having a plurality of voxels, comprising: providing or forming a first layer of a photocurable first liquid crystalline (LC) monomer; wherein t...