US Patent Issued to Formlabs on April 29 for "Techniques for integrated preheating and coating of powder material in additive fabrication and related systems and methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,914, issued on April 29, was assigned to Formlabs Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Techniques for integrated preheating and coating of powder material in additive fabrication and related systems and methods" was invented by Eduardo Torrealba (Cambridge, Mass.), Steven Thomas (Cambridge, Mass.) and Christopher Auld (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improved efficiency of sintering in additive fabrication are described. According to some aspects, mechanisms for depositing and leveling source material are combined with a mechanism for heating the material. In some embodiments, one or more heating elements may be arranged to...