ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,938, issued on July 1, was assigned to Align Technology (San Jose, Calif.).
"Recoating system including moving blade" was invented by Viswanath Meenakshisundaram (Santa Clara, Calif.), Peter Dorfinger (Woodside, Calif.), Umesh Upendra Choudhary (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Michael Christopher Cole (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a build platform configured to support an object that is being formed from layers of resin. The system further includes one or more blades configured to provide the layers of resin to form the object on the build platform. At least a first blade of the one or more blades is confi...