US Patent Issued to VulcanForms on Jan. 13 for "Compliant recoater assemblies, systems, and related methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,940, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to VulcanForms Inc. (Devens, Mass.).

"Compliant recoater assemblies, systems, and related methods" was invented by Lucas Buermeyer (Ayer, Mass.), William Curtis Stone (Tewksbury, Mass.) and Raghav Aggarwal (Dracut, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments are generally related to recoater assemblies for additive manufacturing systems. In some embodiments, a recoater blade may include a plurality of flexible portions that are configured to deflect relative to one another when moved over and past a defect on a build surface. In other embodiments, a recoater assembly may include com...