US Patent Issued to TDK Electronics on July 15 for "3D printer for additive manufacturing of a component and printing method" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,218, issued on July 15, was assigned to TDK Electronics AG (Munich).

"3D printer for additive manufacturing of a component and printing method" was invented by Thomas Lenzen (Graz, Austria), Reinhard Neureiter (Munich) and Christoph Recher (Frauental, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printer for additively manufacturing a multilayer component. The 3D printer includes at least two separate dispensers coating a conveyor belt with respectively different raw material, a manufacturing unit in which at least part of the raw material is added to the component as a new layer, at least two separate recovery devices for selectively ...