US Patent Issued to DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES on May 13 for "Apparatus and methods for removable support structures in additive manufacturing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,539, issued on May 13, was assigned to DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Los Angeles).

"Apparatus and methods for removable support structures in additive manufacturing" was invented by Muhammad Faizan Zafar (Long Beach, Calif.), Broc William TenHouten (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Antonio Bernerd Martinez (El Segundo, Calif.), Keith Allen Fleming (Torrance, Calif.) and John Russell Bucknell (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 sintere...