ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,490, issued on March 11, was assigned to Stratasys Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).
"Method and system for additive manufacturing using closed-loop temperature control" was invented by Amit Feffer (Ramat HaSharon, Israel), Gil Shelef (Kibbutz Negba, Israel), Haim Rotfeld (Mazkeret Batya, Israel) and David Prizant (Kfar Achim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for additive manufacturing comprises a dispensing head for dispensing building materials on a working surface, a hardening system for hardening the building materials, a cooling system for evacuating heat away from the building materials, and a computerized controller. A th...