ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,162, issued on March 25, was assigned to KAIST (KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for printing electrical circuit directly on target surface having 3-dimensional shape, 3D printer used for the same and electrical device having electrical circuit printed by the same" was invented by Bianchi Andrea (Daejeon, South Korea), Neung Ryu (Daejeon, South Korea), Youngkyung Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Myung Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Artem Dementyev (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for printing an electric circuit directly on a ...