US Patent Office Publishes LiquidMetal Applications from Apple.
The US Patent & Trademark Office published today a new series of five Liquidmetal patent applications from Apple which were originally filed in Q2 2012. Two of these inventions from Apple are related to 3D printing. They are methods of construction a part with build metallic glasses (BMG – Liquidmetal) layer by layer.
http://3dprintinginsider.com/us-patent-office-publishes-liquidmetal-applications-from-apple_b11919
Bad news all round then, generic apple patents are always bad for innovation and the consumer…
oh come on… after 20 years of 3d stereo lithography, are you telling me that someone has “tried every single material in the world” through those nozzles;)
@Larry_Rosenthal I was talking to my wife about that a couple of days ago - I’d like to design a system to run a hopper of those chocolate pastilles to do custom chocolates.
mmm. chocolate…sounds good.
crap… now i hope apple should just crumble… they will sue everyone and make consumer pay so much again… @#$% them…