US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 7 for "Method for manufacturing a component by fused filament fabrication and apparatus for producing a component" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,720, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method for manufacturing a component by fused filament fabrication and apparatus for producing a component" was invented by Thomas Baranowski (Wurselen, Germany), Maik Broda (Wurselen, Germany), Markus Franzen (Stolberg, Germany) and Pascal Rebmann (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for producing a component by fused filament fabrication includes a substrate plate for depositing layers of the component. The substrate plate is magnetized before depositing a first layer of the component on the substrate plate by the fused fi...