ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,459, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Relativity Space Inc. (Long Beach, Calif.).
"Multi-diameter wire feeder" was invented by Scott Kilcoyne (Cambridge, Mass.), Mateo Pena Doll (Burlington, Mass.) and Salvador Barriga (Burlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system for printing a three-dimensional object. The system may comprise a support for holding a portion of the object and a wire(s) source configured to hold a wire(s) of substantially the same or different diameters. The system may also comprise a print head. The print head may comprise a guide for directing the wire to the support. Th...