US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce on Oct. 27 for "Additive manufacturing with rotatable deposition head" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,751, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).

"Additive manufacturing with rotatable deposition head" was invented by Scott Nelson (Carmel, Ind.), Peter E. Daum (Fishers, Ind.) and Quinlan Yee Shuck (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for additive manufacturing, the method including delivering, via one or more delivery nozzles of a deposition head, a feedstock material to a substrate, wherein the delivered material defines a material distribution volume on and/or adjacent the substrate; and rotating the deposition head about an axis to control the material distribution volume, wherein the...