US Patent Issued to Align Technology on April 14 for "Prefabricated support structures and/or overlays for additive manufacturing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,094, issued on April 14, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Prefabricated support structures and/or overlays for additive manufacturing" was invented by Michael Christopher Cole (San Jose, Calif.), Brett E. Kelly (Oakland, Calif.), Bastien Pesenti (San Jose, Calif.), Masoumeh Pourali (Mountain View, Calif.), Paul Hassell (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Viswanath Meenakshisundaram (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Peter Dorfinger (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for additive manufacturing of objects are provided. In some embodiments, a device for supporting an object during an additi...