ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,686, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus for volumetric additive manufacturing of cell-loaded resins" was invented by Paul Delrot (Morges, Switzerland), Damien Loterie (Ecublens, Switzerland) and Christophe Moser (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for the volumetric fabrication of three-dimensional objects or articles from photoresponsive materials loaded with scattering particles, by adjusting the refractive index of said photoresponsive material (12) so as to match the ...