ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,527, issued on March 31, was assigned to LUXCREO (BEIJING) INC. (Beijing).

"Composite release films, and devices and methods using composite release film in field of additive manufacturing" was invented by Guang Zhu (Ningbo, China), Wen Fan (Ningbo, China), Zhengwei Wan (Ningbo, China) and Yutong Wu (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite release film may be configured to separate a current cured layer from a photocuring surface during a photocuring three-dimensional (3D) printing process. The composite release film may include a plastic layer and an elastic layer. An upper surface of the plastic layer may be the p...