ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,280, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Recovering fluoropolymer from three-dimensional printed objects" was invented by Erica Fung (San Diego), Alay Yemane (San Diego) and Emre Hiro Discekici (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of recovering fluoropolymer from a three-dimensional printed object can include dissolving a fluoropolymer of a three-dimensional printed object in a fluoropolymer-dissolving solvent to generate dissolved fluoropolymer from the three-dimensional object, wherein the three-dimensional printed object includes from about 0.1 wt % to about 10 wt % particulate ...