**6. Patents**

A patent application entitled "Additive manufacturing of fixing devices for metallic implants by laser melting deposition method", by Chioibasu Diana, Mihai Sabin-Andrei, Duta Liviu-Marian, Popescu C. Andrei, containing information related to the procedure and devices used for fixing the 3D metallic implants both during the PLD experiments and during the post deposition thermal treatments, was submitted for evaluation to State O ffice for Inventions and Trademarks (OSIM), A00214/22.04.2020.

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, L.D.; methodology, L.D., O.A.Z., G.P.-P., D.C., and F.N.O.; software, L.D., J.N., R.P.M., O.A.Z., G.P.-P., D.C., and A.C.P.; validation, L.D., J.N., R.P.M. and A.C.P.; formal analysis, L.D.; investigation, J.N., R.P.M., and O.A.Z.; resources, L.D., F.N.O., and A.C.P.; data curation, L.D. and J.N.; writing—original draft preparation, L.D.; writing—review and editing, L.D., J.N., R.M., O.A.Z., G.P.-P, D.C., F.N.O., and A.C.P.; visualization, L.D., J.N., and A.C.P.; supervision, L.D.; project administration, L.D. and F.N.O.; funding acquisition, L.D. and A.C.P. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** L.D. acknowledges the support from a gran<sup>t</sup> of Ministry of Research and Innovation, CNCS-UEFISCDI, No. PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2016-1568 (PD 6/2018), within PNCDI III. A.C.P. and D.C. have received funding from the PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-2015 (TE136/2018) Project. This work was also supported by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, under Romanian National Nucleus Program LAPLAS VI—Contract 16N/2019.

**Acknowledgments:** All authors acknowledge George E. Stan for his useful comments and kind help.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
