ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,181, issued on March 24, was assigned to KYORAKU Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Thermal melting three-dimensional printer and method for producing molded object" was invented by Ryohei Yuasa (Yamato, Japan) and Tomoyuki Tomita (Yamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a thermal melting three-dimensional printer capable of preventing molding defects. According to the present invention, there is provided a thermal melting three-dimensional printer comprising an extruder, and a push-in mechanism, wherein the extruder includes a hopper, a cylinder, and a nozzle, the hopper is configured to feed pellets into the cylinder throu...