US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Patterned filament for fused filament fabrication" (Indiana, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,196, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis) and Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Patterned filament for fused filament fabrication" was invented by Evan Raeker (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Quinlan Yee Shuck (Indianapolis), Scott Nelson (Carmel, Ind.), Raymond Ruiwen Xu (Carmel, Ind.) and Matthew R. Gold (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, techniques are described for a patterned filament for fused filament fabrication. An additive manufacturing system may include a substrate defining a major surface, a filament delivery device, and a computing device. The computing d...