Patents Assigned to Carbonated Inc.
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Patent number: 12042994Abstract: Provided herein are methods of recycling additively manufactured objects (e.g., stereolithographically produced objects), the additively manufactured objects comprising linear polyurethane, branched polyurethane, linear polyurea, branched polyurea, a copolymer thereof, or a combination thereof. Compositions comprising the same and methods of use thereof are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Mu San Zhang, Kai Chen, Jason P. Rolland, Justin Poelma
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Patent number: 11993015Abstract: A build plate assembly for a three-dimensional printer includes: a lighting panel having individually addressable pixels configured to selectively emit light and/or transmit light from illumination below the pixels to a top surface top surface of the lighting panel; a rigid, optically transparent, gas-impermeable planar screen or base having an upper surface having an uneven surface topology and a lower surface that is affixed to the top surface of the lighting panel; and a flexible, optically transparent, gas-permeable sheet having upper and lower surfaces, the upper surface comprising a build surface for forming a three-dimensional object, the sheet lower surface positioned opposite the base, wherein the build plate is configured to permit gas flow to the build surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: CARBON, INC.Inventors: Bob E. Feller, Ariel M. Hermann, John R. Tumbleston, David Moore, Gregory W. Dachs, II
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Patent number: 11987003Abstract: A method of making a three-dimensional object, including the steps of: (a) providing a carrier platform; (b) producing the three-dimensional object adhered to the carrier platform; (c) immersing the object in a wash liquid with the object remaining adhered to the carrier platform; (d) agitating the object in the wash liquid and/or the wash liquid with the object immersed therein to at least partially remove residual resin from the object; (e) separating the object from the wash liquid, with the object remaining adhered to the carrier platform; (f) agitating the object at least partially remove residual wash liquid; and (g) repeating steps (c) through (f) at least once to remove additional polymerizable resin, steps (c) through (f) are carried out in the same vessel, the immersing step (c) includes filling the vessel with the wash liquid, and the separating step (e) includes draining the wash liquid from the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Courtney F. Converse, W. Ryan Powell, Sherwood Forlee, David Eliot Scheinman, Scott Heines, Edwin James Sabathia, Jr.
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Patent number: 11982991Abstract: An additive manufacturing system may include an additive manufacturing apparatus on which a process of producing a three-dimensional object from a material can be performed; an additive manufacturing process controller operatively associated with the additive manufacturing apparatus; and a first memory device operatively associated with the additive manufacturing process controller. The first memory device may include first and second stable release process programs each comprising a first subset of operations executable by said process controller. The system may include a second memory device comprising another stable release process program comprising a second subset of operations executable by said process controller. The system may include a selector configured to choose one of the stable release process programs to run on said process controller when producing a three-dimensional object on the additive manufacturing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: John R. Tumbleston, Kyle Laaker, Ronald A. Truong, Roy Goldman, Abhishek Parmar
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Patent number: 11981778Abstract: Provided is a method of recycling an additively manufactured object into a reusable thermoplastic polymer, which method in some embodiments may include: (a) providing at least one additively manufactured object produced by stereolithography from a dual cure resin, the object comprising (i) a light polymerized polymer, and (ii) a heat polymerized polymer intermixed with said light polymerized polymer; (b) comminuting the object to produce a particulate material therefrom; (c) contacting the particulate material to a polar, aprotic solvent for a time and at a temperature sufficient to extract the heat polymerized polymer from the particulate material into said solvent, leaving residual particulate material comprising said light polymerized polymer in solid form; (d) separating the residual particulate material from said solvent; and then (e) separating the heat polymerized polymer from said solvent to provide a reusable thermoplastic polymer material in solid form.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Kai Chen, Benjamin Huan Yang
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Patent number: 11952457Abstract: A resin useful for producing objects is provided, which resin contains a photoinitiator of low cytotoxicity. The resins may be suitable for use in additive manufacturing techniques such as bottom-up and top-down stereolithography, produce objects that are bioresorbable and non-cytotoxic, and/or produce objects that are flexible or elastic. Methods of use of the resin and objects produced therefrom are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventor: Gina Michelle Policastro
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Patent number: 11919240Abstract: A method for the production of an object by additive manufacturing includes inputting a boundary shape and desired mechanical properties for said object, subdividing said boundary shape into a plurality of adjacent work cells, providing a plurality of lattices in a database, each lattice of the database including a geometry and a mechanical property, filling a first one of said work cells with a lattice from the database, the lattice selected based on the correspondence of the mechanical properties of said lattice to said desired mechanical properties of said object, filling the remaining ones of said work cells with lattices from said database to produce a filled boundary shape, each said lattice selected based on: the correspondence of the mechanical properties of said lattice to the desired mechanical properties of the object, and the compatibility of adjacent lattices in adjacent work cells with one another.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Hardik Kabaria, Aidan Kurtz
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Patent number: 11919236Abstract: A method of separating excess resin from at least one object includes: (a) stereolithographically producing at least one object, each object having at least one retention feature (32) formed thereon, each object carrying excess resin on a surface thereof; then (b) mounting each object on at least one transfer frame (21), each transfer frame having at least one retention member (22) that mates with the retention feature; (c) connecting each transfer frame to a rotor with the at least one object carried thereon; (d) centrifugally separating excess resin from each object by spinning the rotor with each transfer frame connected thereto while the at least one object remains connected to each transfer frame by the retention feature; then (e) removing each transfer frame from the rotor, with excess resin separated from each at least one object thereon.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Ananda Rose Day, Kenton J. Kwok, William James Tucker
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Patent number: 11919785Abstract: An ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) system that reduces atmospheric CO2 and mitigates ocean acidification by electrochemically processing feedstock solution (e.g., seawater or brine) to generate an alkalinity product that is then supplied to the ocean. The OAE system includes a base-generating device and a control circuit disposed within a modular system housing deployed near a salt feedstock. The base-generating device (e.g., a bipolar electrodialysis (BPED) system) generates a base substance that is then used to generate the ocean alkalinity product. The control circuit controls the base-generating device such that the alkalinity product is supplied to the ocean only when (1) sufficient low/zero-carbon electricity is available, (2) it is safe to operate the base-generating device, and (3) supplying the alkalinity product will not endanger sea life.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Ebb Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Todd Pelman, Matthew Eisaman, Ben Tarbell, David Hegeman, Jeremy Loretz
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Patent number: 11905423Abstract: A polymerizable liquid useful for the production of a three-dimensional object comprised of silicone, or a copolymer thereof, which includes at least one constituent selected from the group consisting of (i) a blocked or reactive blocked siloxane-containing prepolymer, (ii) a blocked or reactive blocked siloxane-containing polyisocyanate, and (iii) a blocked or reactive blocked siloxane-containing polyisocyanate chain extender. Methods of using the same in additive manufacturing processes such as continuous liquid interface production are also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Jessica D. Drazba, Kai Chen, Jason P. Rolland
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Patent number: 11897200Abstract: A dental model, includes (a) an upper segment, the upper segment having a shape corresponding to at least a portion of a dental arch of a human patient; (b) a base segment having an external surface and a bottom surface; (c) at least one internal cavity formed in the base segment, and optionally the upper segment, the at least one internal cavity extending through the bottom surface; and (d) at least one wash channel extending from the external surface of the base segment through the base segment and into the at least one internal cavity.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Ian Alastair Graham, Kyle Laaker, Florian Markus Barth
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Patent number: 11897198Abstract: A method of separating excess resin from at least one object, includes: (a) stereolithographically producing at least one object on at least one carrier platform, each carrier platform having a planar build surface to which at least one object is connected, each object carrying excess resin on a surface thereof; then (b) mounting each carrier platform to a rotor; (c) centrifugally separating excess resin from each object by spinning the rotor with each carrier platform connected thereto while each object remains connected to each carrier platform; and then (d) removing each carrier platform from the rotor with each object thereon, with excess resin separated therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Michael Murillo, Gregory W. Dachs, II, Bob E. Feller
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Publication number: 20240044854Abstract: MRV for an ocean CDR system is achieved by varying the release/delivery of base substance into ocean seawater such that the base substance propagates as a series of release batch wavefronts along a dispersion path. A release frequency, which controls a timing of the release batch wavefronts, is selected to coincide with a non-natural frequency (e.g., a frequency exhibiting quiet/weak power spectra in a natural seawater chemistry variation power spectrum). Time-based seawater carbonate chemistry measurement data, which is collected by ocean-based sensors disposed in the base substance's dispersion path during base substance release, records both human-induced contributions caused by the release batch wavefronts and natural seawater chemistry variations.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Ebb Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Eisaman, Todd Pelman, Jeremy Loretz
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Patent number: 11891485Abstract: A method of forming a three-dimensional object comprised of a silicone polymer is carried out by: (a) providing a silicone dual cure resin; (b) forming a three-dimensional intermediate from that resin, where the intermediate has the shape of, or a shape to be imparted to, the three-dimensional object, and where the resin is solidified in that intermediate object by irradiating with light; and then (c) further reacting the three-dimensional intermediate to form the three-dimensional object. The silicone dual cure resin includes: (i) a light polymerizable first reactant; (ii) a photoinitiator; (iii) at least one additional reactant(s), and (iv) optionally a catalyst. At least one of the first reactant and the additional reactant(s) contains a siloxane linkage.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Jessica D. Drazba, Jason P. Rolland
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Patent number: 11884000Abstract: Provided is method of making a three-dimensional object comprising polyurea, which may include: (a) dispensing a one part (1K) dual cure resin into a stereolithography apparatus, the resin comprising or consisting essentially of a photoinitiator, a reactive blocked polyisocyanate, optionally a catalyst such as a polyurethane blowing catalyst, and optionally a polyepoxide; (b) additively manufacturing from said resin an intermediate object comprising the light polymerization product of said reactive blocked polyisocyanate; (c) optionally cleaning said intermediate object; and (d) reacting said polymerization product in said intermediate with water in the presence of a catalyst such as a polyurethane blowing catalyst (which may be included in the resin, the water, or both) to generate polyamine in situ that sequentially reacts with the remainder of the polymerization product to form urea linkages and thereby produce a three-dimensional object comprising polyurea.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventor: Andrew Gordon Wright
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Patent number: 11884774Abstract: Provided herein according to aspects of the present invention are resins that: (a) are suitable for use in additive manufacturing techniques such as bottom-up and top-down stereolithography, (b) produce objects that are bioresorbable, and (c) produce objects that are flexible or elastic (preferably at at least typical room temperatures of 25° C., and in some embodiments at typical human body temperatures of 37° C.). Such resins may include: (a) a bioresorbable polyester oligomer having reactive end groups; (b) non-reactive diluent; (c) optionally reactive diluent; and (d) a photoinitiator.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Xinyu Gu, Sharon Chen, Gina Michelle Policastro, Peyton Hopson, Jackie Donners, Michael Vendely, Jason L. Harris
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Patent number: 11867248Abstract: An additively manufactured lattice structure includes (a) a first three-dimensional lattice including a repeating interconnected array of a first lattice unit cell, (b) a second three-dimensional lattice including a repeating interconnected array of a second lattice unit cell, wherein said second lattice unit cell is different from said first lattice unit cell, and (c) a first transition segment interconnecting said first three-dimensional lattice and said second three-dimensional lattice. The first transition segment includes (i) a first three-dimensional transitional lattice including a repeating array of said first lattice unit cell and (ii) interleaved with and interconnected to said first three-dimensional transitional lattice, a second three-dimensional transitional lattice including a repeating array of said second lattice unit cell.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Hardik Kabaria, Aidan Kurtz
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Patent number: 11859057Abstract: Provided herein is a method of recycling reactive prepolymers from additively manufactured articles or recovered coating material that comprises a crosslinked polymer formed from a single-cure resin comprising a reactive blocked prepolymer and a crosslinker, by forming and recovering a regenerated reactive prepolymer. Light-polymerizable resins, methods of making recyclable objects from such resins, and methods for sustainable manufacturing are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Justin Poelma, Rick Hubertus Nicolas Curvers
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Patent number: 11859027Abstract: A test cell useful for determining the photosensitivity of a photopolymerizable material, includes a support plate having a top surface portion, a bottom surface portion, and an opening extending therebetween, a light-transmissive base member removably or permanently connected to said bottom surface portion to form with said opening a well, into which well photopolymerizable material can be deposited, and a sensor comprising a thermal sensor, strain sensor, or combination thereof operatively associated with said light-transmissive base member.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: John R. Tumbleston, Ariel M. Herrmann, Matthew Panzer, Tabor Baranti
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Patent number: 11850517Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a gaming system with particular features are provided herein. In particular, a gaming system can provide nested object packages. In some embodiments, the gaming system can monitor user monitoring service calls in third party platforms and implement associated features. In some embodiments, the gaming system can receive developer modifications and schedule multiple updates of the gaming system. In some embodiments, the gaming system can determine inter squad dynamics based on character traits. In some embodiments, the gaming system can provide modified game data to a first set of users and unmodified game data to a second set of users. In some embodiments, the gaming system can generate actions for groups of characters based on user swipes. In some embodiments, the gaming system can implement a player proxy for a player. In some embodiments, the gaming system can use search nodes and agents to map territories.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Carbonated Inc.Inventors: Travis Boatman, Christopher Carlson, Frank Austin Keller, Kolbe Launchbaugh, Lloyd Tullues, Nikolaas Van Wonterghem