ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,587, issued on March 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"3D printer for automated series production" was invented by Hans Bargen (Korntal-Muenchingen, Germany) and Hendrik Jahnle (Leutenbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a 3D printer (1) comprising a temperature-controllable, thermally insulated assembly space (2) for an object (3) to be produced, and at least one print head (4a, 4b) which is movable along at least two axes (x, y) and can add a powdered, pasty, or liquid material locally to the object (3) to be produced; the thermal insulation of the assembly space (2) comp...