ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,425, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Intrepid Automation Inc. (San Diego).

"Additive manufacturing on an application-specific substrate" was invented by Ben Wynne (Escondido, Calif.), Ivan Dejesus Chousal (Chula Vista, Calif.) and James Paul Ferguson (Big Bear City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing a photoreactive 3D printing system (PRPS). An application-specific substrate is positioned in a holding device of the PRPS. Content is printed on the application-specific substrate. The content and the application-specific substrate are incorporated in a finished product after the printing. A method in...