ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,589, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Fabric8Labs Inc. (San Diego).

"Additive manufacturing of parts comprising electrophoretic and electrolytic deposits" was invented by Michael Matthews (San Diego), David Pain (San Diego), Sean Stone (San Diego), Kareemullah Shaik (San Diego), Charles Nicholas Pateros (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Shiv Shailendar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and systems for additive manufacturing of parts comprising electrolytic deposits and electrophoretic deposits. Such methods and methods provide various new ways for integrating different materials into composite parts. Specifi...