ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,226, issued on July 15, was assigned to Stratasys Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Service station for a three-dimensional printing system" was invented by Mordechay Meron (Herzliya, Israel), Hanan Azran (Ashdod, Israel), Barak Glassman (Ness Ziona, Israel), Shmuel Rubin (Moshav Tkuma, Israel) and Guy Menchik (RaAnana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service station system for a three-dimensional printing system comprises: a bath, having a fast-release connector at a front side thereof, and a hinge at a back side thereof for hingebly connecting an open top of the bath to a surface of the three-dimensional printing system; and a wiper...