US Patent Issued on May 14 for "Systems and methods for 3D printing with multiple exchangeable printheads" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- United States Patent no. 11,981,077, issued on May 14.

"Systems and methods for 3D printing with multiple exchangeable printheads" was invented by Karl Joseph Gifford (Norcross, Ga.), Tai Dung Nguyen (Fremont, Calif.) and Tue Nguyen (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular 3D printer system can include a base subsystem and multiple exchangeable components. The base subsystem can have a 3D motion module, a printhead module and a platform module. The multiple exchangeable components can include printheads having different configurations and functionalities, which can be exchangeably installed in the printhead module. The multiple exchangeable componen...