US Patent Issued to AUBURN UNIVERSITY on June 30 for "Additive nanomanufacturing system and method" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,868, issued on June 30, was assigned to AUBURN UNIVERSITY (Auburn, Ala.).

"Additive nanomanufacturing system and method" was invented by Masoud Mahjouri-Samani (Auburn, Ala.) and Nima Shamsaei (Auburn, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a chamber and a nozzle detachably connected to the chamber, the nozzle defining an aperture, a target carousel disposed within the chamber, a first laser configured to generate a first beam directed toward the target carousel to perform in-situ ablation to form a laser plume, a gas flow system configured to supply gas into the chamber, such that the gas interacts with the laser plu...