US Patent Issued to Sakuu on Sept. 9 for "Apparatus and method to provide conditioning to a deposited powder" (California, Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,605, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sakuu Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method to provide conditioning to a deposited powder" was invented by Morteza Vatani (Los Gatos, Calif.), Seyed Mohammad Sajadi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Paul Wanamaker (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Nesdahl (Blaine, Minn.), Tim Debruin (Stillwater, Minn.), Brian Lindahl (Somerset, Wis.) and Justin Carroll (Vadnais Height, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved apparatus and method provide conditioning to a powder deposited on a substrate (e.g., a web), for example, by wetting the powder in a 3D printing apparatus. To achieve this in an exem...