ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,738, issued on June 23, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS (Toulouse, France).
"Deposition head of a three-dimensional printer, said deposition head being configured to deposit several wires simultaneously, and three-dimensional printer comprising said deposition head" was invented by Matthieu Sicre (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deposition head for a three-dimensional printer with at least one pay-out device which comprises several wire spools, each spool having a wire to be deposited simultaneously with the other wires, a drive system having a drive roller with several grooves, one for each wire to be deposit...