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Granting of US Patent Strengthens Titomic Platform
Key Highlights:
• Granting of US patent secures Titomic’s intellectual property position
• US patent opens Titomic to one of the world’s largest additive manufacturing markets
Melbourne, Australia, 26 September, 2017: Australian metal additive manufacturing company
Titomic Limited (ASX:TTT) is pleased to announce the granting of the US patent for the application
of cold-gas dynamic spraying of titanium or titanium alloy particles onto a scaffold to produce a
load-bearing structure, better known as Titomic Kinetic Fusion.
Entitled ‘A process for producing a titanium load-bearing structure’, this patent provides Titomic
with the foundation to expand the reach of Titomic Kinetic Fusion process into one of the largest
manufacturing economies in the world, the US.
Titomic CEO Mr Jeff Lang commented:
“This US application has been pending since March 2013, so to date we’ve only slowly
progressed any discussions with potential major US customers until our intellectual property
was protected.
We’re excited that this patent has now been granted in the US, enabling us to advance our
initial discussions with potential US customers in what is one of the largest additive
manufacturing markets in the world.”
Titomic has the exclusive rights to commercialise the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) proprietary and patented process for the application of cold-gas
dynamic spraying of titanium or titanium alloy particles onto a scaffold to produce a load-bearing
structure. This forms part of Titomic Kinetic Fusion, the unique cold-spray 3D printing process.
Titomic has already secured patents for this technology in Japan and New Zealand, with patent
pending approval in Australia, China, Europe, Hong Kong and South Korea.