US Patent Issued to MOI Composites on Jan. 21 for "Equipment and method for the three-dimensional printing of continuous fiber composite materials" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,202,194, issued on Jan. 21, was assigned to MOI Composites S.R.L. (Milan).

"Equipment and method for the three-dimensional printing of continuous fiber composite materials" was invented by Gabriele Natale (Milan) and Michele Tonizzo (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Equipment and a method for the three-dimensional printing of continuous fiber composite materials are described, and the equipment comprises:-a supplying head (1) to supply at least one filiform element of continuous fiber (4) comprising at least one fiber;-a movement assembly for the relative movement between the supplying head (1) and the three-dimensional object (20) s...