US Patent Issued to Stratasys on Sept. 15 for "3D printer with head carriage with filament cutter and removable print head" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,752, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Stratasys Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"3D printer with head carriage with filament cutter and removable print head" was invented by Ross Michalkiewicz (Minneapolis), Dang Yang (Champlin, Minn.), Colin Schiel (Chaska, Minn.) and Jeff Lee Chapman (New Prague, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extrusion-based 3D printer configured to print 3D parts in a layer-by-layer manner includes a platen configured to accept and support extruded material, at least one print head configured to extrude material to print a 3D part and a gantry configured to move the at least one print head as the material ...