ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,974, issued on May 20, was assigned to PERIDOT PRINT LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Three-dimensional printing" was invented by Jason C. Hower (Corvallis, Ore.), Mohammed S. Shaarawi (Corvallis, Ore.), Vladek P. Kasperchik (Corvallis, Ore.), James McKinnell (Corvallis, Ore.) and Jennifer L. Wu (Corvallis, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example of a method for three-dimensional printing, a first amount of a binding agent is selectively applied, based on a 3D object model, to individual build material layers of a particulate build material including metal particles to forming an intermediate structure. The binding agent and/or a ...