US Patent Issued to Sakuu on March 4 for "Printing method for additive manufacturing, including in-situ powder regeneration by removing portions of deposited powder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,177, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sakuu Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Printing method for additive manufacturing, including in-situ powder regeneration by removing portions of deposited powder" was invented by Morteza Vatani (Los Gatos, Calif.), Seyed Mohammad Sajadi (San Jose, Calif.), Steven Zhichao Shi (Santa Clara, Calif.), David Paul Wanamaker (San Jose, Calif.), Siamak Azizi (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Karl Littau (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for 3D printing for creating at least two discrete sections of powder on a substrate, segmenting the substrate to isolate the at least two dis...