ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,552, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Dynamic element compositing" was invented by Nathan Moroney (Palo Alto, Calif.), Craig Peter Sayers (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ji Won Jun (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Paulo Abner Aurelio Mesquita (Porto Alegre, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein relating to compositing dynamic content on 3D printed objects. A printing subsystem may transmit printing instructions to a 3D printer that include only a single digital mesh of the object, digital meshes of each discrete element of the dynamic content, and instructions for composi...