ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,193, issued on June 10, was assigned to Stratasys Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Method and system for additive manufacturing of peelable sacrificial structure" was invented by Yaniv Shitrit (Ashkelon, Israel) and Eduardo Napadensky (Natania, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional object. The method comprises: sequentially dispensing and solidifying a plurality of layers comprising (i) a stack of model layers arranged in a configured pattern corresponding to the shape of the object and being made of a modeling material, (ii) a sacrificial structure having a stack of sacrificial layer...