US Patent Issued to LPW Technology on April 22 for "Docking arrangement for an additive manufacturing process" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,430, issued on April 22, was assigned to LPW Technology Ltd (Widnes, Great Britain).

"Docking arrangement for an additive manufacturing process" was invented by Callum Healey (Widnes, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A docking arrangement (10) for coupling an outlet (16) of a container (12) to an inlet (18) for a component of an additive manufacturing process. The docking arrangement (10) includes a dock (11) configured to receive the container (12) and a gas supply (35) associated with the dock (11). A gas coupler (38a, 38b) is provided and is configured, in use, to couple the gas supply (35) with a gas inlet (32) associa...