ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,777, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional printing with post-print thermal treatment" was invented by Emre Hiro Discekici (San Diego), Geoffrey Schmid (San Diego) and Alay Yemane (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional printing system can include a build material including from about 95 wt % to 100 wt % of thermoplastic elastomer particles having a D50 particle size from about 2 micro metre to about 150 micro metre, and a printhead fluidly coupled to or fluidly coupleable to a fusing agent to selectively and iteratively eject the fusing agent onto successive ...