ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,599, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Build platform for use in an additive manufacturing device" was invented by Malte Korten (Moorenweis, Germany), Gioacchino Raia (Turkenfeld, Germany), Bastian P. Kirchner (Furstenfeldbruck, Germany), Daniel D. Oberpertinger (Herrsching, Germany), Anja Friedrich (UnterschleiBheim, Germany) and Andreas G. Herrmann (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a build platform for use in an additive manufacturing device that is builds up an object from layers of a light-hardenable resin, wherein the build platform ...