ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,454, issued on July 7, was assigned to Muse Engine Inc (Philadelphia).
"Reconfigurable mold and molding subsystem for injection molding and three-dimensional additive manufacturing applications" was invented by Benjamin Morgan Legum (Bluemont, Va.), Jennifer Louise Vondran (Hopewell, N.J.) and Jody Allen Strausser (Clarion, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molding subsystem includes a reconfigurable mold and a control subsystem. The reconfigurable mold includes one or more plates, with each plate including: a plurality of pins defining a molding surface of the reconfigurable mold; a frame which defines a plurality of channels for ...