US Patent Issued to Sakuu on April 1 for "Apparatus and method to remove powder with flexible scraper blade and adjustable side nozzles" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,639, issued on April 1, was assigned to Sakuu Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method to remove powder with flexible scraper blade and adjustable side nozzles" was invented by Morteza Vatani (Los Gatos, Calif.), Timothy Byman (Saint Michael, Minn.) and Justin Carroll (Vadnais Height, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved apparatus and method are provided to remove powder from a web, for example, in a 3D printing apparatus. A flexible blade is provided to contact and move across a first portion of the web located between adjacent portions of the web to scrape powder from the first portion without removing powder dep...