ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,318, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Carbon Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Resin extractor for additive manufacturing" was invented by Michael Murillo (Menlo Park, Calif.), Gregory W. Dachs II (San Mateo, Calif.) and Bob E. Feller (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of separating excess resin from at least one object, includes: (a) stereolithographically producing at least one object on at least one carrier platform, each carrier platform having a planar build surface to which at least one object is connected, each object carrying excess resin on a surface thereof; then (b) mounting each carrier platform to...