ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,937, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas).

"Additive manufacturing feedstock production system for reactive wire and related methods" was invented by Shiren Wang (College Station, Texas), Ruochen Liu (Bryan, Texas), Aolin Hou (College Station, Texas) and Chongjie Gao (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing feedstock production system includes a transition roller configured to combine reactive metal foils into combined reactive metal foils with a first combined thickness. The additive manufacturing feedstock production system includes a wor...