US Patent Issued to Stratasys Powder Production on Oct. 21 for "Method of operation for an apparatus for layer-by-layer manufacture of 3D objects" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,679, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Stratasys Powder Production Ltd. (London).

"Method of operation for an apparatus for layer-by-layer manufacture of 3D objects" was invented by Gianluca Dorini (London), Christoffer Raad Petersen (London), Torben Lange (London), Anders Hartmann (London), David Armand (London) and Kristian Noergaard (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an apparatus for the layerwise manufacture of 3D objects. The method includes two or more operational cycles of a warm up phase, starting from ambient, followed by a build phase and a cooling phase. The warm up phase and the build phase each...