US Patent Issued to Desktop Metal on July 1 for "Controlling meniscus position for magnetohydrodynamic metal manufacturing" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,750, issued on July 1, was assigned to Desktop Metal Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Controlling meniscus position for magnetohydrodynamic metal manufacturing" was invented by Emanuel Michael Sachs (Newton, Mass.) and Paul A. Hoisington (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods are directed to applying magnetohydrodynamic forces to liquid metal to eject liquid metal along a controlled pattern, such as a controlled three-dimensional pattern as part of additive manufacturing of an object. Electric current delivered to a meniscus of the liquid metal in a quiescent state can be directed to exert a pullback...