US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Dec. 16 for "Method of fabricating three-dimensional object and apparatus for fabricating three-dimensional object" (Japanese, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,638, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method of fabricating three-dimensional object and apparatus for fabricating three-dimensional object" was invented by Kohichiroh Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Shozo Sakura (Kanagawa, Japan), Yohei Osanai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yunsheng Sun (Telford England, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of fabricating a three-dimensional object. The method includes supplying, flattening, and collecting. The supplying supplies, with a powder supplier, powder to a fabrication chamber. The fabrication chamber includes a fabrication stage to store powde...