US Patent Issued to Sakuu on March 11 for "Three-dimensional ("3D") printing apparatus with counter-rotating roller" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,485, issued on March 11, was assigned to Sakuu Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional ("3D") printing apparatus with counter-rotating roller" was invented by Morteza Vatani (Los Gatos, Calif.), Siamak Azizi (Los Gatos, Calif.), Seyed Mohammad Sajadi (San Jose, Calif.) and Steven Zhichao Shi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional ("3D") printing system for printing on a substrate, the printing system including a powder distribution device dispensing powder on the substrate and including a blade-shaped end, the blade-shaped end disposed at a height above the substrate; a powder uniformization dev...