US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Feb. 17 for "Hybrid 3D printer that uses photo-curable materials" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,090, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hybrid 3D printer that uses photo-curable materials" was invented by Mehdi Mojdeh (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Christopher Cole (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Dorfinger (Woodside, Calif.) and Shiva P. Sambu (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printer comprises a platform, a dispenser, and a light source. The dispenser comprises a nozzle to extrude photo-curable material onto the platform to form a first layer according to one or more digital files. The first shape of the one or more extruded photo-curable materials corresponds to a first min...