ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,034, issued on July 22, was assigned to GROB-WERKE GmbH & Co. KG (Mindelheim, Germany).
"Print head and method for starting up a print head" was invented by Johannes Glasschroder (NeusaB, Germany), Benjamin Himmel (Munich), Andreas Lang (Ettringen, Germany), Oliver Leusch (Augsburg, Germany), Christian Miklec (Bad Worishofen, Germany) and Martin Otter (Memmingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for starting up a nozzle channel of a print head for processing liquid molten metal, the method including the following steps: A) preparing the print head, wherein metal is melted in a crucible to form a molten metal, and a pis...