US Patent Issued to IO TECH GROUP on July 14 for "Methods for additive-ablative fabrication" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,032, issued on July 14, was assigned to IO TECH GROUP LTD. (Modiin, Israel).

"Methods for additive-ablative fabrication" was invented by Michael Zenou (Hashmonaim, Ill.) and Ziv Gilan (Kfar Harif, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of solid free-form fabrication (SFF) includes receiving SFF data collectively pertaining to a three-dimensional shape of the object and comprising a plurality of slice data each defining a layer of the object. The method further includes dispensing a building material containing a solvent, drying the building material so as to remove at least some of the solvent from the building material and lev...