US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA on July 1 for "Solid-state additive manufacturing system and method" (Alabama Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,930, issued on July 1, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Solid-state additive manufacturing system and method" was invented by Josef Benjamin Cobb (Huntsville, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Additive manufacturing systems and methods are disclosed. A housing includes a passageway and an inverted trough that is in fluid communication with the passageway and that is open along two faces of the housing. A pin is at least partially disposed in the housing with its circumferential face being adjacent to the passageway such that a volumetric region lies between the inver...