US Patent Issued to UT-BATTELLE on Dec. 9 for "Static mixing nozzles for long fiber and resin mixing and dispersing in polymer additive manufacturing" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,681, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Static mixing nozzles for long fiber and resin mixing and dispersing in polymer additive manufacturing" was invented by Tyler C. Smith (Knoxville, Tenn.), Ahmed A. Hassen (Knoxville, Tenn.), John M. Lindahl (Powell, Tenn.), Christopher J. Hershey (Knoxville, Tenn.), Vlastimil Kunc (Knoxville, Tenn.), Vipin Kumar (Knoxville, Tenn.), James W. Klett (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Brian K. Post (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing system for additive manufacturing material with long fibers includes an extruder comprising a nozzle that...