US Patent Issued to University of Maine System Board of Trustees on Dec. 23 for "Non-orthogonal additive manufacturing and the treatment of parts manufactured thereof" (Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,824, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to University of Maine System Board of Trustees (Orono, Maine).

"Non-orthogonal additive manufacturing and the treatment of parts manufactured thereof" was invented by James M. Anderson (Milbridge, Maine) and Matthew J. Ireland (Old Town, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a 3D printer including a receiving surface for accepting the accumulation of material layers, and a gantry having a shaft and carriage that is translated along the shaft, and an extruder assembly that is articulated to rotate a printing plane, wherein the extruder assembly is attached to the car...