US Patent Issued to JABIL on Feb. 25 for "On-demand method of making PCB pallets using additive manufacturing" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,868, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to JABIL INC..

"On-demand method of making PCB pallets using additive manufacturing" was invented by Luke Rodgers (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Erik Gjovik (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a printed circuit board pallet is provided. The method of making the pallet illustratively includes the steps of: providing a base in a form of a polymer sheet stock; applying a fluid onto the base at selective locations where the pallet will be built-up to a three-dimensional form; depositing a polymer powder onto the base at the selective locations applied with the fluid; re...