ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,712, issued on April 7, was assigned to OTTOBOCK SE & Co. KGAA (Duderstadt, Germany).
"Method for producing a three-dimensional object, and device therefor" was invented by Lars Benjamin Finke (Landolfshausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing a three-dimensional object by means of an additive manufacturing process in which a manufacturing material is fed in a free-flowing state through at least one feed-in opening of at least one feed-in needle into a supporting material and then cured, the feed-in opening being configured in such a way that manufacturing material can be fed throu...