ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,151, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Additive manufacturing with fusing and warming energy sources" was invented by Krzysztof Nauka (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Aja Hartman (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, an additive manufacturing system is described. The additive manufacturing system includes a build material deposition device to deposit a layer of a powder build material. The additive manufacturing system includes a fusing agent deposition device to deposit a fusing agent on a first portion of the layer that is to form ...