ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,179, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Nobula3D AB (Stockholm).
"Method and apparatus for additive manufacturing of a glass object" was invented by Michael Fokine (Saltsjo-Boo, Sweden), Taras Oriekhov (Taby, Sweden) and Chunxin Liu (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an additive manufacturing method and apparatus for forming a three-dimensional component/object of glass including the steps of: feeding a glass filament material in an essentially horizontal direction towards a stage, heating the glass filament material such that the glass fiber material becomes or remains molten/softened; and d...