ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,084, issued on April 14, was assigned to Continuous Composites Inc. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho).

"Additive manufacturing system" was invented by Stephen Tyler Wilson (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho), John Paul Brendel (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho), Ryan C. Stockett (Spokane, Wash.), Nathan Andrew Stranberg (Post Falls, Idaho), Andrew John Overby (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho), Sam Armstrong (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho), Maxwell Joseph Johnson (Hayden, Idaho), Brennon Scott Wilsey (Spokane Valley, Wash.) and Matt Howard (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed for additively manufacturing a structure. The system may have a support, and...