ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,533, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FUJIMI Inc. (Kiyosu, Japan).

"Powder material for use in additive layer manufacturing, additive layer manufacturing method using same, and molded article" was invented by Junya Yamada (Kiyosu, Japan), Hiroyuki Ibe (Kiyosu, Japan), Nobuaki Kato (Kiyosu, Japan), Yuta Kato (Kiyosu, Japan) and Yoshikazu Sugiyama (Kiyosu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a powder material that is for manufacturing a molded article having low porosity and having uniformly present micropores by an additive layer manufacturing method. A powder material for use in additive layer manufacturing conta...