ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,724, issued on April 7, was assigned to ADDUP (Cebazat, France).

"Module for supplying additive manufacturing powder allowing drying of the powder" was invented by Ali El Ouazzani Tayibi (Cebazat, France) and Ludovic Angele (Cebazat, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supply module (2) for supplying additive manufacturing powder comprises: a main hopper (29) for storing additive manufacturing powder, the main hopper (29) being designed to be connected to a manufacturing module (4) configured to additively manufacture an object from the powder; an inlet (211) of the supply module (2) designed to be connected to the manufacturing ...