ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,596, issued on March 17, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"3D printer" was invented by Hendrikus Hubertus Petrus Gommans (Meeuwen, Netherlands), Marc Andre De Samber (Lommel, Belgium), Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam (Milpitas, Canada) and Vladimir Ossin (Astana, Kazakhstan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printer extruder unit (1) comprising a printing nozzle (2), a first temperature sensor (3), a second temperature sensor (4), and a processing unit (5) communicatively connected to the first temperature sensor (3) and the second temperature sensor (4). The processing unit (5) is configured to receive a sens...