US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on May 26 for "Multi-material printing for producing a 3D item with interpenetrating layers" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,826, issued on May 26, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Multi-material printing for producing a 3D item with interpenetrating layers" was invented by Jacobus Petrus Johannes Van Os (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method wherein single layers of a wall element, consist of two (or more) strands. One of the strands is located at one side of the layer and another one of the strands is arranged at the other side of the layer. However, at one or more positions these sides may be changed. In this way, e.g. colo...