ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,416, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to 3RDAXIS PTY LTD (Darlington, Australia).
"High temperature extruder for a 3D printer" was invented by Ashish Jain (Darlington, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extruder for 3D FDM printing with a highly thermally conductive ceramic nozzle that allows for very high temperature operation suitable for printing metals and high melting point plastics, whilst also being hard wearing to cope with abrasive materials. A heating element is printed onto the nozzle to allow for high temperatures in a compact space. A skirt attached to the nozzle provides heating to already deposited material t...