ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,321, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Carbon Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Force-regulated additive manufacturing" was invented by Ronald Truong (San Mateo, Calif.) and Daniel Jiaji Yang (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a three-dimensional object (31) includes the steps of: (a) providing an apparatus including a carrier (15), a light transmissive window (12) having a build surface, polymerizable liquid (21) on the build surface, and a growing object (31) on the carrier, the growing object produced by light polymerization of the polymerizable liquid; (b) vertically reciprocating the carrier (15) wi...