US Patent Issued to DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES on March 18 for "Support structures in additive manufacturing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,884, issued on March 18, was assigned to DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Los Angeles).

"Support structures in additive manufacturing" was invented by Eahab Nagi El Naga (Topanga, Calif.), John Russell Bucknell (El Segundo, Calif.), Chor Yen Yap (Gardena, Calif.), Broc William TenHouten (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Antonio Bernerd Martinez (El Segundo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of support structures in powder-bed fusion (PBF) are provided. Support structures can be formed of bound powder, which can be, for example, compacted powder, compacted and sintered powder, powder with a binding agent applied, ...