ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,090, issued on April 14, was assigned to SprintRay Inc. (Los Angeles).

"System and method for three-dimensional printing" was invented by Jing Zhang (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Amirhossein Mansourighasri (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Abdol Hossein Bassir (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing three-dimensional printing is disclosed. The three-dimensional printing technology includes enhanced functionality to provide better resolution printing, filtration of forming materials stored within a reservoir tank, and a simple and efficient cleaning process to remove debris from the reservoir subs...