US Patent Issued to Peridot Print on July 21 for "Three-dimensional printing with wetting agent" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,785, issued on July 21, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional printing with wetting agent" was invented by Vladek Kasperchik (Corvallis, Ore.), Jennifer Wu (Corvallis, Ore.) and Ian Pahk (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a wetting agent and a binding agent. The wetting agent can include from about 5 wt % to about 80 wt % water-miscible hydroxyl-containing solvent and from about 20 wt % to about 95 wt % water. The water-miscible hydroxyl-containing solvent can be selected from methyl lactate, ethyl lactate, propyl lactate, 2-...