ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,607, issued on May 27, was assigned to Stratasys Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Method and system for three-dimensional printing on fabric" was invented by Boris Belocon (Rehovot, Israel), Sebastien Herrmann (Even Shmuel, Israel), Guy Menchik (RaAnana, Israel) and Naomi Kaempfer (Antwerp, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for three-dimensional printing comprises an array of nozzles for dispensing building materials, a work tray (12/360) and a jig (402) configured for affixing a fabric (420) to the work tray. A computerized controller operates at least the array of nozzles to dispense a building material in a configured patter...