ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,499, issued on July 28, was assigned to LPW TECHNOLOGY LTD (Widnes, Great Britain).
"Docking arrangement for an additive manufacturing process" was invented by Callum Healey (Widnes, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an operating handle for controlling the operational state of a valve arrangement associated with a container to control dispensing of material from the container to a component of an additive manufacturing process, the operating handle comprising a rotatable shaft coupled to the valve arrangement, the shaft being rotatable between a plurality of angular positions corresponding to one o...