ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,129, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Mosaic Manufacturing Ltd. (Toronto).
"Series enabled multi-material extrusion technology" was invented by Mitchell Oliver Debora (Thornhill, Canada), Daniel Lloyd (Calgary, Canada) and Derek Alan Vogt (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided for producing a multicomponent feedstock being delivered through a print head of a 3D printer. Multiple component lengths are produced from separate feedstocks and are aligned to form the multicomponent feedstock which is fed into the print head for extrusion. The method includes providing at least two sources of...