Last week, we ran a post about a slightly controversial video that claimed that a particular 3D-printing slicing strategy was tied up by a patent troll. We’re absolutely not lawyers here at Hackaday, ...

It is a fact of life that 3D printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers join. Some of this is due to voids and imperfect layer bonding, but you can ...

The global automotive industry experienced a 48% decline in the number of 3D printing-related patent applications in Q3 2024 compared with the previous quarter. The total number of 3D printing-related ...

A recently filed patent (Publication Number: US20240034880A1) discloses a method for 3D-printing objects using a thermoplastic composition containing an amorphous polyamide polymer. The method ...

Analysis of patenting activity by companies shows that Ricoh filed the most 3D printing patents within the consumer industry in Q3 2024. The company filed 20 3D printing-related patents in the quarter ...

While 3D printing revolutionized the production of static, complex geometries, 4D printing introduces time as the functional fourth dimension 1. In this paradigm, 3D-printed structures are engineered ...

Except it is Stratasys that actually has patents on other people’s work and is using those to sue. It is unfortunately the reality of the patent system that you can obtain patents on other people's ...

Apple's patent application, submitted in May 2014, is titled "Method And Apparatus For Three Dimensional Printing Of Colored Objects." The printer in the application appears to use fused deposition ...

Patent-pending wet-mixing method for 3D-printed part functionalization. Photo Credit: Purdue University image/Brittany Newell Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind., U.S.) researchers have developed ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Optomec, an established leader in Additive Manufacturing solutions for 3D Metal Printing and 3D Printed Electronics, has received new patents covering the use of ...

Purdue University researchers have developed a patent-pending method to add particles to filament and disperse them evenly through a traditional fused deposition modeling, or FDM, 3D printer, which ...