This week, the US patent office issued 6,774 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all six thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the six most interesting patents. 1. Disney makes 3D printing instantaneous Patent number: US 20160107380 Presently, 3D printing is extremely slow and time consuming. For example, it may take several hours to print a single 3D object even if the 3D object is relatively small. Disney’s technology circumvents the layer-by-layer approach of conventional 3D printers that has significantly limited achievable printing speeds. The 3D printer is configured with the assumption that a…
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