ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,512, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sakuu Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus for compacting a powder layer" was invented by Seyed Mohammad Sajadi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Morteza Vatani (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Siamak Azizi (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure pertains to an improved method and apparatus for compacting a powder layer. An exemplary method comprises placing the substrate on a first plate, placing a second plate over the powder layer so that the substrate and the powder layer are sandwiched between the first plate and the second plate to form a multilayered structure compri...