US Patent Issued to SprintRay on March 17 for "Reservoir with substrate assembly for reducing separation forces in three-dimensional printing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,588, issued on March 17, was assigned to SprintRay Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Reservoir with substrate assembly for reducing separation forces in three-dimensional printing" was invented by Amir Mansouri (Los Angeles), Huijian Tian (Los Angeles), Hossein Bassir (Los Angeles), Jing Zhang (Los Angeles) and Shukun Ye (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a system and reservoir assembly for three-dimensional (3D) printing. The reservoir assembly includes a top frame that may be filled with liquid material, and a tensioned film being held underneath the top frame. The tensioned film may be air permeable and...