ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,096, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional printing with coalescing agent" was invented by Karsten N. Wilson (Corvallis, Ore.), Emre Hiro Discekici (San Diego), Vladek Kasperchik (Corvallis, Ore.), Timothy L. Weber (Corvallis, Ore.), Mark Kowalski (Corvallis, Ore.), Sterling Chaffins (Corvallis, Ore.) and Devin Alexander Mourey (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of three-dimensional printing can include iteratively applying a polymer build material as individual layers to a powder bed, where the polymer build material includes from about 80 wt % to 100 wt % ...