ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,003, issued on June 3, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Cooling unit with a self-locking latch mechanism" was invented by Ernesto Alejandro Jones Poppescou (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Wojciech Jerzy Krasowski (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Arturo Garcia Gomez (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Josep Maria Fernandez Sanjuan (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling unit can be coupled to a build unit of a 3D printing system. The cooling unit comprises a cooling unit opening which is arranged to face a build unit opening when the cooling unit is coupled to the build unit to enable...