US Patent Issued to Orca Sciences on Jan. 27 for "Trussed structures for additive manufacturing and methods of formation thereof" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,850, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Orca Sciences LLC (Kirkland, Wash.).

"Trussed structures for additive manufacturing and methods of formation thereof" was invented by Dylan Owens (Kirkland, Wash.), Menyoung Lee (Kirkland, Wash.) and Patrick Gallagher (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a skeleton (e.g., space frame, trussed structure, regular foam, open-cell foam, closed cell foam, etc.) can include providing instructions for spatial locations of optical hot spots, generating the optical hot spots, and growing material at the optical hot spots to form the skeleton. The method can optionally inc...