US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on June 3 for "System and method for additive manufacturing" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,004, issued on June 3, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"System and method for additive manufacturing" was invented by Jigang Huang (Evanston, Ill.) and Cheng Sun (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for additive manufacturing includes a multi-material vat that includes a plurality of resins. The system also includes a robotic arm that provides at least six degrees of freedom of motion, where the robotic arm moves with the six degrees of freedom to draw resin out of the multi-material vat to form an object. The system further comprises a processor operatively coupled to the robotic arm and c...