US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 18 for "Method for manufacturing material layer, method for manufacturing three-dimensional object, material-layer-forming apparatus, and additive manufacturing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,555, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method for manufacturing material layer, method for manufacturing three-dimensional object, material-layer-forming apparatus, and additive manufacturing system" was invented by Kenta Kubo (Kamakura, Japan) and Hiroshi Taniuchi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a material layer includes a first step S101 of arranging first particles P1 in a pattern on a base material 11 and a second step S102 of arranging second particles in regions in which the first particles P1 are not arranged on the base material 11. The second step S102 includes...