US Patent Issued to ROBOTIC RESEARCH OPCO on April 22 for "System and method for enabling fused deposition metal 3D printing" (Maryland, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,411, issued on April 22, was assigned to ROBOTIC RESEARCH OPCO LLC (Clarksburg, Md.).

"System and method for enabling fused deposition metal 3D printing" was invented by Alberto Daniel Lacaze (Potomac, Md.) and Karl Nicholas Murphy (Cocoa Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal fused deposition printer can use the thixotropic properties of a metal (e.g., alloy) to control the viscosity of the material being deposited. The viscosity of the metal can be controlled by shearing the metal before, during, or after the deposition process. Use of the thixotropic properties can allow the viscosity of the metal to be controlled indep...