US Patent Issued to Caracol on July 21 for "Method for three-dimensional printing of an article in polymeric thermoplastic material" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,171, issued on July 21, was assigned to Caracol S.r.L. (Milan).

"Method for three-dimensional printing of an article in polymeric thermoplastic material" was invented by Giovanni Avallone (Milan), Paolo Cassis (Cusano Milanino, Italy), Jacopo Gervasini (Nova Milanese, Italy) and Francesco De Stefano (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the three-dimensional printing of articles made of thermoplastic polymeric material. The method comprises the steps of: providing an extrusion head equipped with a nozzle having a dispensing opening; feeding the extrusion head with a thermoplastic...