ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,771, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Ultraviolet fusing agents for colorless three dimensional printed parts" was invented by Jake H. Thomas (San Diego), Emily Levin (San Diego) and Emre Hiro Discekici (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example implementations, a three-dimensional printing kit for printing a colorless three-dimensional object in a three-dimensional printing system is provided. The three-dimensional printing kit includes a build material and an ultraviolet (UV) fusing agent. The UV fusing agent includes water, a UV light absorber, about 10-50 weight percent (wt %) of ...