ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,716, issued on April 7, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Shaping method and shaping device" was invented by Kenji Tsukada (Toyota, Japan), Tasuku Takeuchi (Kariya, Japan) and Ryojiro Tominaga (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shaping method includes a first ejection step of ejecting a first curable viscous fluid, a planarization step of planarizing the first curable viscous fluid, a first curing step of curing the first curable viscous fluid, a cured layer forming step of repeatedly executing the first ejection step, the planarization step, and the first curing step to form a cured layer, a second ejection ...