US Patent Issued to CARACOL on Aug. 12 for "Device and method for feeding polymeric material to a printhead of an additive manufacturing machine and additive manufacturing machine" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,111, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CARACOL S.R.L. (Lomazzo, Italy).

"Device and method for feeding polymeric material to a printhead of an additive manufacturing machine and additive manufacturing machine" was invented by Daniele Vanerio (Lomazzo, Italy), Paolo Cassis (Lomazzo, Italy) and Giovanni Avallone (Lomazzo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device for feeding a polymeric material to a print head of an additive manufacturing machine has a feed cylinder that flows directly into the print head at a fitting to feed the polymeric material into the print head; and a movable pusher within the feed cylinder to adva...