ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,550, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SprintRay Inc. (Los Angeles).

"System and method for facilitating separation of stereolithography 3D-printed objects from build platforms" was invented by Amir Mansouri (Los Angeles), Aayush Patel (Los Angeles), Anjali E. Daniels (Los Angeles), Huijian Tian (Los Angeles) and Chonghuan Huang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for facilitating separation of 3D-printed objects from build platforms. The principle of separation in the present invention involves a build platform configured to be removable or flexible or partially deformable, such that at least a portion of ...