ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,978, issued on May 6, was assigned to Stratasys Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"System for 3D printing" was invented by Gregory Brusilovski (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Uri Grach (MaAle Adumim, Israel) and Boaz Max Perek (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing (AM) system includes a carriage that deposits material in a defined pattern and a building platform that receives material deposited from the carriage. The carriage includes a pre-heating assembly with a plurality of pre-heating chambers and a printing block with a plurality of slots for receiving a plurality of printing heads. The carriage is equipped with m...