ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,657, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Three-dimensional shaping device" was invented by Tatsuya Teramoto (Nagano, Japan), Taki Hashimoto (Nagano, Japan), Kazuhide Nakamura (Asahi-mura, Japan), Masayuki Gozu (Nagano, Japan) and Takafumi Sameshima (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional shaping device includes: a discharge part that includes a nozzle configured to discharge a shaping material from a nozzle opening thereof; a stage that includes a shaping surface on which the shaping material is to be deposited; a heating part configured to heat the shaping material deposited on th...