US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on March 18 for "Three-dimensional printing with tinted anti-coalescing agents" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,875, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Three-dimensional printing with tinted anti-coalescing agents" was invented by Emre Hiro Discekici (San Diego), Shannon Reuben Woodruff (San Diego), Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez (San Diego) and Jacob Wright (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-fluid kits for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent and a tinted anti-coalescing agent. The fusing agent can include water and an electromagnetic radiation absorber that absorbs radiation energy and converts the radiation energy to heat. The tinted anti-coalescing agent ca...