ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,591, issued on July 29, was assigned to Imperial College Innovations Ltd. (London).
"Apparatus and method for extruding curved profiles" was invented by Junquan Yu (London), Wenbin Zhou (London), Zhutao Shao (London), Jianguo Lin (London) and Trevor Dean (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to apparatus for extruding a material. The apparatus includes an extrusion die arranged to receive material to be extruded from a first direction and from a second direction. The extrusion die includes an orifice from which material is extruded in a third direction. The first, second and third directions are n...