US Patent Issued to MARKFORGED on Sept. 23 for "Method of manufacturing metal matrix composite parts" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,573, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MARKFORGED INC (Waltham, Mass.).

"Method of manufacturing metal matrix composite parts" was invented by Maxim Seleznev (Arlington, Mass.), Joseph Roy-Mayhew (Watertown, Mass.) and Jessica Faust (Tyngsborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of manufacturing a metal matrix composite part and ceramic preform assembly for use in the method. The method includes forming a ceramic preform using 3D printing, sintering the ceramic preform to form a sintered preform, introducing a liquid metal into the sintered preform to form the metal matrix composite part. The ceramic preform may be par...