US Patent Issued to Velo3D on May 26 for "Device for planarization of a surface of a material bed" (California, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,705, issued on May 26, was assigned to Velo3D Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Device for planarization of a surface of a material bed" was invented by Benyamin Buller (Cupertino, Calif.), Thomas Blasius Brezoczky (Los Gatos, Calif.), Alan Rick Lappen (Rio Rancho, N.M.), Erel Milshtein (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Rueben Joseph Mendelsberg (Hawthorne, Calif.) and Daniel Christiansen (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure various apparatuses, and systems for 3D printing. The present disclosure provides three-dimensional (3D) printing methods, apparatuses, software and systems for a step and repeat energy irradi...