ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,174, issued on July 21, was assigned to GUANGZHOU HEYGEARS IMC. INC (Guangzhou, China).
"Object shoveling mechanism, 3D printer and 3D printing method" was invented by Junhua Liu (Guangzhou, China), Jiajing Zhou (Guangzhou, China), Qingshan Liu (Guangzhou, China), Shutian Su (Guangzhou, China), Bingliang Huang (Guangzhou, China) and Kaiwu Li (Guangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an object shoveling mechanism, a 3D printer and a 3D printing method, and relates to the technical field of printing. The object shoveling mechanism is applied to the 3D printer. The 3D printer includes a forming platform, p...