US Patent Issued to PERIODOT PRINT on April 15 for "Build material extraction" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,190, issued on April 15, was assigned to PERIODOT PRINT LLC (Palo ALto, Calif.).

"Build material extraction" was invented by Jorge Diosdado Borrego (Barcelona, Spain), Sergi Culubret Cortada (Barcelona, Spain) and Sergio Puigardue Aramendia (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printing apparatus is disclosed herein. The apparatus comprises a container, a build material extraction module, an energy source and a controller. The container is to receive a build volume comprising portions in which an un-cured thermally curable binder has been applied to define a 3D object to be generated and portions on which no binder has...