US Patent Issued to Additive Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Metal drop ejecting three-dimensional (3D) object printer and improved method for operating the printer" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,485, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Additive Technologies LLC (Palm City, Fla.).

"Metal drop ejecting three-dimensional (3D) object printer and improved method for operating the printer" was invented by Joseph C. Sheflin (Macedon, N.Y.), Chu-Heng Liu (Penfield, N.Y.), Paul J. McConville (Webster, N.Y.), Peter Knausdorf (Henrietta, N.Y.), Alexander J. Fioravanti (Penfield, N.Y.) and Palghat S. Ramesh (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional (3D) metal object manufacturing apparatus is configured to eject melted metal drops from an ejector head at different velocities to form different portions of metal obj...