ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,881, issued on April 21, was assigned to Triastek Inc. (Nanjing, China).

"3D printing device and method" was invented by Senping Cheng (Nanjing, China), Xiaoling Li (Dublin, Calif.), Feihuang Deng (Nanjing, China), Haohui Lu (Nanjing, China), Haili Liu (Nanjing, China), Juan Yao (Nanjing, China), Xiaofei Wang (Nanjing, China) and Wei Wu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printing device (100), comprising a melt extrusion module (102), a printing module (103), and a platform module (104). The melt extrusion module (102) comprises a processing chamber (121) consisting of a feed inlet (124) and a discharge outlet (125)...