ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,689, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Seurat Technologies Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Enclosed additive manufacturing system" was invented by James A. DeMuth (Woburn, Mass.), Erik Toomre (Los Altos, Calif.), Francis L. Leard (Sudbury, Mass.), Kourosh Kamshad (Hudson, N.H.), Heiner Fees (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Eugene Berdichevsky (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of additive manufacture is disclosed. The method may include restricting, by an enclosure, an exchange of gaseous matter between an interior of the enclosure and an exterior of the enclosure. The method may further include running multiple ...