ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,958, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional printing with thermoplastic elastomeric particles and lower alkyldiol organic co-solvents" was invented by Emre Hiro Discekici (San Diego), Qin Liu (Corvallis, Ore.), Tienteh Chen (San Diego) and Shannon Reuben Woodruff (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional printing kit can include a polymeric build material including thermoplastic elastomeric particles having a D50 particle size from about 2 micro metre to about 150 micro metre, and a fusing agent. The fusing agent can include water, from about 5 wt % to about 40...