ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,799, issued on April 29, was assigned to JABIL INC..
"Apparatus, system and method of coating organic and inorganic print materials" was invented by Nicholas Dippel (St. Petersburg, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed exemplary apparatuses, systems and methods may provide a pulverant suitable to provide a three-dimensional molding by use of the pulverant in a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing process in which regions of respective layers of pulverant are selectively melted via introduction of electromagnetic energy. The pulverant may comprise a spray dried, thermoplastic polyurethane polymer (TPU) coated, inorganic o...