ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,777, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Stratasys Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Method and system for extended three-dimensional printing" was invented by Shmuel Rubin (Moshav Tkuma, Israel), Kiril Lain (Rehovot, Israel), Dan Mordechay (Mazkeret Batya, Israel), Barak Glassman (Ness Ziona, Israel) and Eliyahu Tsubery (Gan Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for three-dimensional printing comprises: a three-dimensional printing apparatus for printing an object using a building material supplied from a container, and a computer. The computer is configured to receive working hours of personnel operating the apparatus, to calcu...