ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,674, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional printing with binder agent" was invented by Karsten N. Wilson (Corvallis, Ore.), Emre Hiro Discekici (San Diego), Vladek Kasperchik (Corvallis, Ore.), Timothy L. Weber (Corvallis, Ore.), Sterling Chaffins (Corvallis, Ore.) and Devin Alexander Mourey (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of three-dimensional printing can include iteratively applying a polymer build material as individual layers to a powder bed, where the polymer build material includes from about 80 wt % to 100 wt % polymer build particles, and based on ...