ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,049, issued on July 15.
"Interface layers for removable supports" was invented by Jonah Samuel Myerberg (Lexington, Mass.), Ricardo Fulop (Lexington, Mass.), Michael Andrew Gibson (Philadelphia), Matthew David Verminski (North Andover, Mass.), Richard Remo Fontana (Cape Elizabeth, Maine), Christopher Allan Schuh (Wayland, Mass.), Yet-Ming Chiang (Burlington, Mass.) and Anastasios John Hart (Waban, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Support structures are used in certain additive fabrication processes to permit fabrication of a greater range of object geometries. For additive fabrication processes with materials that are subsequentl...