Patents Assigned to ENVISIONTEC, INC.
  • Publication number: 20130304233
    Abstract: A process for additive manufacturing of a resorbable implant to be implanted into a patient includes providing a biocompatible resin including a liquid light-polymerizable material that is resorbable after polymerization and an initiator. The process further includes actuating an additive manufacturing apparatus to expose an amount of the biocompatible resin to light to at least partially cure the exposed amount of biocompatible resin to form a layer of the resorbable implant and actuating the additive manufacturing apparatus to expose at least some additional amount of biocompatible resin to light to at least partially cure the exposed additional amount of biocompatible resin to form an additional layer of the resorbable implant and to at least partially overcure previously cured layers to cause at least some interlayer binding between the previously cured layers and the additional layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicants: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, RICE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, ENVISIONTEC, INC.
    Inventors: H. David Dean, Jonathan E. Wallace, Antonios G. Mikos, Martha Wang, Ali Siblani, Kyobum Kim, John P. Fisher