ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,165, issued on July 21, was assigned to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas).

"Additive manufacturing apparatus with powder-integrated preceramic mixture and related methods" was invented by Shiren Wang (College Station, Texas), Ruochen Liu (Bryan, Texas), Aolin Hou (College Station, Texas), Wei Li (College Station, Texas) and Jingjing Qiu (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing apparatus includes powder supplies, a preceramic binder supply, and a mixer device downstream from the powder supplies and the preceramic binder supply and configured to generate a powder-integrated...