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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2012
Applicant:
Empire Technology Development Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Inventors:
William Brenden Carlson, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory D. Phelan, Cortland, NY (US);
Vincent Casasanta, III, Woodinville, WA (US);
Feng Wan, Issaquah, WA (US);
Assignee:
Empire Technology Development LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 44/04 (2006.01); B29C 67/20 (2006.01); B32B 3/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 67/202 (2013.01); B32B 3/26 (2013.01); Y10T 428/24967 (2015.01); Y10T 428/24975 (2015.01); Y10T 428/249981 (2015.04);
Abstract
A light-weight material and a method for producing a light-weight material use removable forms to produce an array of interconnected voids within the material. The forms include a plurality of spaced apart and adjoining blocks onto which the material is deposited, and the blocks are constructed of a material that may be desolidified, such as by vaporization, to remove the blocks from the material, leaving behind a network of interconnected voids.