US Patent Issued to STRATASYS on July 8 for "Local z print head positioning system in a 3D printer" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,884, issued on July 8, was assigned to STRATASYS INC. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Local z print head positioning system in a 3D printer" was invented by Paul Joseph Leavitt (Minneapolis), Thomas Joseph McDonough (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) and Zachary James Davis (Minnetonka, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printer includes a gantry configured to move in a plane substantially parallel to a x-y build plane and a print head configured to extrude molten material to print a 3D part in a layer-by-layer process. The 3D printer includes a platen configured to support the part being printed in the layer by layer process and positionable ...