ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,832, issued on May 26, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).
"3D printer machine equipped with a transparent secondary chamber allowing manufacture in a controlled atmosphere" was invented by Mickael Rouby (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Clement Nagode (Clermont-Ferrand, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional printing machine (1) comprises a main chamber (2) which is delimited by a first wall (3) and inside which there are a main platform (5), intended to support a part (4) being printed, and a nozzle (6) designed to supply and deposit a printing material (7) in su...