US Patent Issued to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies on June 10 for "Piezoelectric actuated 3D-printing nozzle and methods of tool touch-off" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,187, issued on June 10, was assigned to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Piezoelectric actuated 3D-printing nozzle and methods of tool touch-off" was invented by Nikki Lee Martinez (Lee's Summit, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric printhead having a printing nozzle, and a piezoelectric transducer mounted in-line with the printing nozzle is disclosed. The piezoelectric transducer may apply vibration to the printing nozzle that is in-line with the flow of print material through the nozzle. The vibration applied to the printing nozzle may prevent agglomeration of print material as t...