ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,188, issued on June 10, was assigned to R3 Printing Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"System and method for automated successive three-dimensional printing" was invented by Paul Sieradzki (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for autonomously creating subsequent physical objects using a 3-dimensional printer. The system includes a build platform which is ejected with a printed object adhered to it, with a replenishing mechanism to place a blank build platform into the expected build area such that printing a subsequent object may occur autonomously. The replenishing mechanism may draw from a plurality of stored blan...