US Patent Issued to Stratasys Powder Production on Dec. 9 for "Method of operation for an apparatus for layer-by-layer manufacture of 3D objects" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,683, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Stratasys Powder Production Ltd. (Nottingham, Great Britain).

"Method of operation for an apparatus for layer-by-layer manufacture of 3D objects" was invented by Gianluca Dorini (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing 3D objects in an apparatus having a thermal sensor, a stationary heat source and one or more further heat sources. The method includes a warm up and a build process; each processing multiple layers by a layer cycle. The layer cycles include (a) providing build bed surface of particulate material; (b) heating the surface using the stationary or a first moving...