ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,213, issued on June 17, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional printing with supportive coating agents" was invented by Ben Pon (Palo Alto, Calif.), John Samuel Dilip Jangam (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kyle Wycoff (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Lihua Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional printing kit can include a particulate build material, a binding agent, and a supportive coating agent. The particulate build material can include from about 80 wt % to about 100 wt % metal particles based on the total weight of the particulate build material. The binding agent can include bin...