ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,769, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for operating a printhead for a 3D printer and printhead for a 3D printer for carrying out the method" was invented by Hendrik Jahnle (Leutenbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method (200) for operating a printhead (10) for a 3D printer.According to the invention, the method (200) comprises the following steps: filling (210) a cavity (40) with printable material (10) by means of a feed device (2); closing (220) an opening cross-section (21) of a piston bushing (4) by the advance of a piston (3) starting from a ...