US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on July 14 for "Systems and methods for additively manufacturing high strength and stiffness fiber-reinforced inorganic glass composite structures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,765, issued on July 14, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for additively manufacturing high strength and stiffness fiber-reinforced inorganic glass composite structures" was invented by James Lewicki (Oakland, Calif.) and Maxwell Glen Tsurumoto (Modesto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a feedstock for performing additive manufacturing through a heated extrusion print nozzle heated to a working printing temperature. The feedstock may have a glass matrix meltable at the working printing temperature and a reinforcing fiber component....