US Patent Issued to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO on Dec. 16 for "Method and system for layerwise forming an object from a medium capable of solidification" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,773, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Method and system for layerwise forming an object from a medium capable of solidification" was invented by Ruud Olieslagers (Geldrop, Netherlands), Jeroen Anthonius Smeltink (Mierlo, Netherlands) and Jeroen Arjan Van Herp (Vlijmen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing method and system for layerwise forming an object from a medium capable of solidification, wherein successive layers of the medium are applied using a nozzle head including a plurality of discr...