US Patent Issued to Yazaki on July 8 for "3D printers and feedstocks for 3D printers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,893, issued on July 8, was assigned to Yazaki Corp. (Tokyo).

"3D printers and feedstocks for 3D printers" was invented by Satyabrata Raychaudhuri (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Yongan Yan (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Leonid Grigorian (Camarillo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates in general to three dimensional ("3D") printers having a configuration that prepares a three-dimensional object by using a feedstock comprising a metal or a polymer compound and a carbon coating formed on a surface of the compound. This disclosure also relates to such feedstocks and their preparation methods. This disclosure further relate...