US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on April 22 for "Method of manufacturing three-dimensionally formed object and three-dimensionally formed object manufacturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,534, issued on April 22, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of manufacturing three-dimensionally formed object and three-dimensionally formed object manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Eiji Okamoto (Matsumoto, Japan), Masaya Ishida (Hara-mura, Japan) and Toshimitsu Hirai (Hokuto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a three-dimensionally formed object includes: forming a layer using a flowable composition including constituent material particles of a three-dimensionally formed object and a flowable composition including support portion-forming particles for forming a support portion which...