ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,630, issued on March 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Print head for 3D printing of metals, device for additively manufacturing three-dimensional workpieces, comprising a print head and method for operating a device" was invented by Viktor Friedrich (Sersheim, Germany), Benjamin Schweizer (Horb, Germany) and Eberhard Maier (Koengen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a print head (1) for additively manufacturing three-dimensional workpieces, comprising a housing (3), a device (28) for feeding a metal (14), a piston (5), a reservoir (7) with an outlet opening (10) and an actuat...