US Patent Issued to OPT Industries on April 29 for "Additive manufacturing on pliable substrates" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,912, issued on April 29, was assigned to OPT Industries Inc. (Medford, Mass.).

"Additive manufacturing on pliable substrates" was invented by Jifei Ou (Medford, Mass.), William Curtis Stone (Tweksbury, Mass.), Carlo Bares (Somerville, Mass.) and August Rabe (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for printing a 3D object on a pliable substrate. In some aspects, the pliable substrate is moved through a vat of polymeric precursor while a mechanism (e.g., having opposing belts) maintains contact with the peripheral edges of the substrate. The systems and methods described herein can have c...