ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,905, issued on March 3, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"In-laser wire feeding device having inductive auxiliary heating function" was invented by Gangxian Zhu (Suzhou, China), Liang Zhao (Suzhou, China), Lifang Wang (Suzhou, China), Guangqi Li (Suzhou, China) and Shihong Shi (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-laser wire feeding device having an inductive auxiliary heating function, comprising a wire feeding pipeline and a laser path unit. The wire feeding pipeline comprises upper and lower wire feeding pipes, and a gap zone is formed between the upper and lower wire feeding pipes. The in-laser wi...