B29C 64/40
Structures for supporting 3d objects during manufacture and intended to be sacrificed
Official title: Structures for supporting 3D objects during manufacture and intended to be sacrificed after completion thereof
B29C64/40 (Structures for supporting 3d objects during manufacture and intended to be sacrificed) appears on 1,731 US grants and 2,261 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29C- Granted patents
- 1,731
- Published applications
- 2,261
- Assignees
- 633
- Inventors
- 3,270
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 6 | 0 |
| 1992 | 15 | 0 |
| 1993 | 14 | 0 |
| 1994 | 12 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 12 | 0 |
| 1997 | 15 | 0 |
| 1998 | 13 | 0 |
| 1999 | 21 | 0 |
| 2000 | 23 | 0 |
| 2001 | 24 | 4 |
| 2002 | 21 | 16 |
| 2003 | 20 | 29 |
| 2004 | 21 | 29 |
| 2005 | 16 | 25 |
| 2006 | 12 | 6 |
| 2007 | 13 | 7 |
| 2008 | 15 | 24 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11 |
| 2010 | 12 | 12 |
| 2011 | 7 | 18 |
| 2012 | 12 | 12 |
| 2013 | 13 | 26 |
| 2014 | 18 | 43 |
| 2015 | 37 | 97 |
| 2016 | 52 | 159 |
| 2017 | 76 | 282 |
| 2018 | 119 | 258 |
| 2019 | 169 | 218 |
| 2020 | 180 | 210 |
| 2021 | 151 | 177 |
| 2022 | 150 | 164 |
| 2023 | 167 | 155 |
| 2024 | 115 | 126 |
| 2025 | 110 | 99 |
| 2026 | 59 | 54 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Additive manufacturing based on fluid-fluid interface6 Oct 2026US 12,752,492 B2Carnegie Mellon University
- Exhaust system for support removal apparatus22 Sep 2026US 12,741,319 B2PostProcess Technologies, Inc.
- Interfacial and support structures for inorganic material printing and methods thereof22 Sep 2026US 12,741,419 B2Xerox Corporation
- Support material removal device and support material removal method25 Aug 2026US 12,715,176 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Self-healing polymers25 Aug 2026US 12,715,979 B2Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
- Additive manufacturing process for producing chemical delivery devices using screening8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307336 A1Genesee Valley Innovations, LLC
- High melt temperature soluble semi-crystalline polyamides1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297255 A1Syensqo Specialty Polymers USA, LLC
- Creating objects through photosensitve resin17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273867 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- System and method for three-dimensional printing10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264330 A1SprintRay, Inc.
- Workpiece carrier and apparatus for producing three-dimensional screen-printed workpieces10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264338 A1Exentis Knowledge GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for creating three-dimensional objects880US 5,121,329 AStratasys, Inc. · 1992
- Modeling apparatus for three-dimensional objects645US 5,340,433 AStratasys, Inc. · 1994
- Fabricating multi-part assemblies597US 9,815,118 B1Desktop Metal, Inc. · 2017
- Forming structures from CAD solid models580US 6,391,251 B1Optomec Design Company · 2002
- Process of support removal for fused deposition modeling499US 5,503,785 AStratasys, Inc. · 1996