ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,596, issued on April 7, was assigned to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Microdroplet-based three-dimensional (3D) laser printing system and method" was invented by Yongxiang Hu (Shanghai), Guohu Luo (Shanghai), Di Wu (Shanghai), Yu Zhou (Shanghai) and Zhenqiang Yao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microdroplet-based three-dimensional (3D) laser printing system, which includes a laser beam subsystem, a transparent donor substrate, voxel arrays, and the receiver substrate. By irradiating the voxel array with a pulsed laser beam deriving from the laser beam subsystem through the transparent donor substrate, the voxe...