US Patent Issued to ECOLE NATIONALE VETERINAIRE AGROALIMENTAIRE ET DE L'ALIMENTATION NANTES ATLANTIQUE, INRAE on Dec. 23 for "Ohmic-heating printhead for 3D printer" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,832, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ECOLE NATIONALE VETERINAIRE AGROALIMENTAIRE ET DE L'ALIMENTATION NANTES ATLANTIQUE (Nantes, France) and INRAE (Paris).

"Ohmic-heating printhead for 3D printer" was invented by Olivier Rouaud (Orvault, France), Monique Khodeir (Nantes, France), Anthony Oge (Fay de Bregtagne, France), Alain Le Bail (Nantes, France), Patricia Le Bail (Nantes, France) and Vanessa Jury (Saint-Herblain, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printhead for a 3D printer includes two large walls and two small walls that define between them a right-angled parallelepipedal cavity. Each small wall is produced from an elec...