US Patent Issued to Huazhong University of Science and Technology on Oct. 7 for "Wire arc additive manufacturing-spinning combined machining device and method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,298, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China).

"Wire arc additive manufacturing-spinning combined machining device and method" was invented by Hai'ou Zhang (Wuhan, China), Kai Wang (Wuhan, China), Fusheng Dai (Wuhan, China), Xushan Zhao (Wuhan, China), Runsheng Li (Wuhan, China), Jun Wu (Wuhan, China), Haitao Yang (Wuhan, China) and Huayu Zhang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wire arc additive manufacturing-spinning combined machining device and method are provided. The machining device includes a spinning mechanism and a fused deposition modeling mechanism. The spinni...