US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, STEELCASE on Aug. 5 for "Additive manufacturing in gel-supported environment" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,611, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and STEELCASE Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Additive manufacturing in gel-supported environment" was invented by Skylar Je Tibbits (Boston), Christophe Guberan (La Praz, Switzerland), Jared S. Laucks (Cambridge, Mass.), Schendy Guiders Kernizan (Cambridge, Mass.), Kathleen S. Hajash (Somerville, Mass.), Bjorn Sparrman (Somerville, Mass.) and Paul Noll (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an apparatus for making three dimensional objects. A nozzle is positioned within a gel inside a container of gel. The position o...