ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,144, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Shear thinning build material slurry" was invented by Thomas Craig Anthony (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ben Mint Pon (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Hardik Rajesh Hingorani (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shear thinning build material slurry includes metallic or ceramic particles having a particle size up to about 20 ?m; a hydrocolloid present in an amount ranging from about 0.05 percent by volume to less than 0.5 percent by volume of the shear thinning build material slurry; and water. The build material slurry is a ready-to-use three-dimensional (3D...