US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on March 11 for "Deposition head for friction stir additive manufacturing devices and methods" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,392, issued on March 11, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Deposition head for friction stir additive manufacturing devices and methods" was invented by Weidong Song (Woodinville, Wash.), Michael Brennan (Renton, Wash.) and Alex Langenstein (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A friction stir additive manufacturing device configured to join a first work-piece and a second work-piece is provided. In one aspect, the device includes a rotating spindle configured to deposit a filler material over a weld line as the device is advanced along an interface between the first work-piece and the second work-...