US Patent Issued to XEROX, NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA on July 14 for "Porous piezoelectric composites and production thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,021, issued on July 14, was assigned to XEROX Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.) and NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA (Ottawa).

"Porous piezoelectric composites and production thereof" was invented by Sarah J. Vella (Milton, Canada), Alexandros Vasileiou (Toronto), Yujie Zhu (Mississauga, Canada), Edward G. Zwartz (Mississauga, Canada) and Chantal Paquet (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Parts made by additive manufacturing are often structural in nature, rather than having functional properties conveyed by a polymer or other component present therein. Printed parts having piezoelectric properties may be formed using compositions compris...