ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,419, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to XEROX Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Interfacial and support structures for inorganic material printing and methods thereof" was invented by Junhua Wei (Palo Alto, Calif.), Gregory Brian Anderson (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Daniel Bullard (Palo Alto, Calif.) and David Mathew Johnson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of additive manufacturing includes i) forming a first layer, the including a material chosen from an article material, a support structure material and an interfacial material. The method includes ii) forming an additional layer on the first layer, including at least o...