ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,828, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1 (Villeurbanne, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE LYON (Villeurbanne, France) and ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE CHIMIE PHYSIQUE ELECTRONIQUE DE LYON (Villeurbanne, France).
"Additive manufacturing method depositing material within a granular constrained medium" was invented by Christophe Marquette (Villeurbanne, France), Edwin-Joffrey Courtial (Villeurbanne, France), Alizee Delbarre (Sevrier, France) and Arthur Colly (Villeurbanne, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing proce...