US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on March 3 for "In-situ reactive curing and infiltration in binder jet additive manufacturing" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,000, issued on March 3, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"In-situ reactive curing and infiltration in binder jet additive manufacturing" was invented by Tomonori Saito (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Amelia M. Elliott (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Dustin B. Gilmer (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Lu Han (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of binder jet additive manufacturing (BJAM) is provided. The method includes feeding a supply of powder particles to a powder bed, delivering an organic binder onto the powder bed in select locations of each layer to form a porous green part, and introducing to the binder a secondary compon...