US Patent Issued to STRATASYS on March 18 for "Method of printing a three-dimensional object comprising a plurality of discrete elements" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,882, issued on March 18, was assigned to STRATASYS LTD. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Method of printing a three-dimensional object comprising a plurality of discrete elements" was invented by Lior Elgali (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Naftali Emanuel Eder (Kiryat Gat, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of printing a 3D object comprising a plurality of discrete elements, the method comprising: receiving a 3D digital model of a shell group comprising one or more shells representing the plurality of discrete elements; defining, in the 3D digital model, a unifying shell to at least partly envelop one or more shells of the shell group to prov...