ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,052, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to XJet Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"3D particle printing" was invented by Eli Kritchman (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Nadav Mordechai (Tel Aviv, Israel), Igor Gofman (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Alex Drukman (Givatayim, Israel), Mark Baevsky (Rehovot, Israel), Denis Dragunov (Bat Yam, Israel), Eduardo Napadensky (Netanya, Israel), Yohai Dayagi (Kibutz Kramin, Israel), Mubeen Baidossi (Kafr Kara, Israel), Avi Levy (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Michael Pilavsky (Ashdod, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "3D (three-dimensional) ink-jet printing includes techniques for evaporating a carrier liquid during printing while...