US Patent Issued to Bond Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Continuous rod feed for additive friction stir deposition" (Indiana, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,726, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Bond Technologies Inc. (Elkhart, Ind.).

"Continuous rod feed for additive friction stir deposition" was invented by Timothy John Haynie (Union, Mich.), John Andrew Bosker (South Bend, Ind.), Timothy Wayne Wagler (South Bend, Ind.), Arnold David Wright (Elkhart, Ind.) and Kendall James McKenzie (Granger, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for a continuous supply of feedstock for a friction stir additive manufacturing method has a rod supply system that transports feedstock segments to a shuttle. The rod supply system has actuators that are coupled to allow movement of th...