US Patent Issued to XEROX, NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA on June 16 for "Thermally curable piezoelectric composites and use thereof in additive manufacturing" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,388, issued on June 16, was assigned to XEROX Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.) and NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA (Ottawa).

"Thermally curable piezoelectric composites and use thereof in additive manufacturing" 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 for...