US Patent Issued to The University of British Columbia on May 26 for "Large-scale 3D extrusion printing" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,833, issued on May 26, was assigned to The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).

"Large-scale 3D extrusion printing" was invented by Jordan Mackenzie (Vancouver, Canada) and Dominic Mark Martinez (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of moving materials comprises: flowing a first fluid in an axial direction, the first fluid characterized by inertial forces dominating viscous forces of the first fluid; flowing a second fluid in the axial direction, the first and second fluids miscible with one another and the first and second fluids having an interface region therebetween; permitting a reaction to cre...