US Patent Issued to ExOne on Aug. 26 for "Coater for a 3D printer, 3D printer having the coater, use of the coater and use of the 3D printer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,352, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ExOne GmbH (Gersthofen, Germany).

"Coater for a 3D printer, 3D printer having the coater, use of the coater and use of the 3D printer" was invented by Thomas Huber (Aichach, Germany), Hadi Huleihil (Augsburg, Germany), Alexander Muller (Diedorf-Vogelsang, Germany) and Roland Ladewig (Windeby, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a coater 10 for a 3D printer, comprising an elongated container 30 comprising two opposing long side walls 32, 34 between which an internal cavity 36 is formed for receiving particulate material, the cavity 36 opening into an elongated output slot 38 for ...