US Patent Issued to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY on Feb. 24 for "3D printing system including a layer of an inert material between a textured surface and a liquid photopolymer resin" (Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,838, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Franklin, Tenn.) and NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).

"3D printing system including a layer of an inert material between a textured surface and a liquid photopolymer resin" was invented by Nanzhu Zhao (Novi, Mich.), Evan Jones (Evanston, Ill.), Sandeep Patil (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Cheng Sun (Wilmette, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printing system includes a tank containing a liquid photopolymer resin. A textured surface is disposed in the tank. The textured surface is configured such that light passes through therethrough and into the liquid...