US Patent Issued to Advanced Manufacturing on March 17 for "System and method for continuous fabrication of graded structured units using additive manufacturing" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,215, issued on March 17, was assigned to Advanced Manufacturing LLC (East Hartford, Conn.).

"System and method for continuous fabrication of graded structured units using additive manufacturing" was invented by Dongsheng Li (Farmington, Conn.) and Thomas Maloney (Hebron, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of continuous fabrication of multi-material graded structures using additive manufacturing is disclosed. Using multi-material feedstocks and optimized processing parameters, the gradient on composition and structure are controlled to achieve smooth transition from one functional component to another functional...