US Patent Issued to Continuous Composites on Oct. 27 for "System for additive manufacturing" (Idaho, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,823, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Continuous Composites Inc. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho).

"System for additive manufacturing" was invented by Nathan Andrew Stranberg (Post Falls, Idaho), Andrew John Overby (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) and Colin Hugh Hambling (Medina, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed for additively manufacturing a composite structure. The system may include a support, a discharge head connected to and moveable by the support, a supply of reinforcement, and a rotary tensioner located between the supply and the discharge head. The rotary tensioner may be configured to impart tension to the reinforce...