US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 8 for "Heated three-dimensional printer head for variable material deposition" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,883, issued on July 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Heated three-dimensional printer head for variable material deposition" was invented by Andrew Hicks (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Miles C. Pedrone (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Tynan J. Garrett (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Michael Peter Lyons (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing device is provided and includes a printing material source, a printing head and a temperature control system. The printing material source is configured to contain a supply of printing material. The printing head is receptive of the printing...