US Patent Issued to Carnegie Mellon University on Oct. 7 for "Additive manufacturing of embedded materials" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,973, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Additive manufacturing of embedded materials" was invented by Adam Feinberg (Pittsburgh) and Thomas Hinton (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method includes providing support material within which the structure is fabricated, depositing, into the support material, structure material to form the fabricated structure, and removing the support material to release the fabricated structure from the support material. The provided support material is stationary at an applied stress level below a threshold stress level and flows at an ap...