US Patent Issued to Ultimaker on March 25 for "Fused filament fabrication system with interchangeable print heads and filament" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,777, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ultimaker B.V. (Geldermalsen, Netherlands).

"Fused filament fabrication system with interchangeable print heads and filament" was invented by Raymond Houwing (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Beerend Groot (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a fused filament fabrication system having a number of print heads, a print head mount, and a gantry. So-called filament modules can be connected to the print heads. The print heads can be docked into a special print head dock or into one of the filament docks if a filament module is arranged in between. Filament feeders feed ...