ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,250, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Formed article producing method" was invented by Tatsuya Tsuboi (Okaya, Japan), Kenta Anegawa (Matsumoto, Japan), Hirotsugu Ota (Minowa-machi, Japan) and Riona Toda (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A formed article producing method, includes a first step of shaping a shaping body by ejecting a shaping material including a thermoplastic resin and of forming a first formed article by cutting the shaping body with a first rotating tool; a second step of generating recycling material by cutting the first formed article with a second rotating tool; and a th...