US Patent Issued on Sept. 30 for "Digital manufacturing device operable in additive or subtractive manufacturing modes using selectable materials" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,719, issued on Sept. 30.

"Digital manufacturing device operable in additive or subtractive manufacturing modes using selectable materials" was invented by Antonio St. Clair Lloyd Williams (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel approach to digital manufacturing is disclosed. In one embodiment, a single light source is provided in a single digital manufacturing device that can be configured to fabricate a three-dimensional object from liquid resin materials or configured to fabricate a three-dimensional object from powder or the same device can be configured to etch, cut, or mark a workpiece. The changes in configurat...