ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,791, issued on July 1, was assigned to Magnus Metal Ltd. (Revadim, Israel).
"Additive metal casting system and apparatus" was invented by Gil Lavi (Ness Ziona, Israel), Emil Weisz (Modi'in-Maccabim-Reut, Israel) and David Scheiner (Savyon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for additive casting of metal objects by constructing production layers having mold regions and object regions includes a mold construction unit to construct a mold region of the current production layer; a Preparation-Deposition-Post (PDP) unit including: a molten metal depositor to deposit molten metal in an object region; a holder for holdin...