ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,186, issued on June 10, was assigned to PRISAM LLC (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Extrusion system for additive manufacturing" was invented by Denis Cormier (Pittsford, N.Y.), Pritam Poddar (Rochester, N.Y.), Xavier Tarr (Rochester, N.Y.), Justin Kon (Rochester, N.Y.) and Adam Foster (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for additive manufacturing having a body; a plurality of articulated arms, each having a jointed connection to the body opposite a free end, the plurality of articulated arms movable relative to each other and the plurality of articulated arms having opposable motions about the jointed connection; an extr...