US Patent Issued to Thermwood on Aug. 12 for "Methods and apparatus for processing and dispensing material during additive manufacturing" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,108, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Thermwood Corp. (Dale, Ind.).

"Methods and apparatus for processing and dispensing material during additive manufacturing" was invented by Kenneth J. Susnjara (Birdseye, Ind.), Nicolas Vote (Newburgh, Ind.), Robert Gaesser (Dale, Ind.) and Scott G. Vaal (Jasper, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing method for delivering a flowable material from a nozzle of a programmable computer numeric control (CNC) machine, the nozzle being configured to translate along a first axis, a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and a third axis orthogonal to the first and second ax...