US Patent Issued to Thermwood on April 7 for "Methods and apparatus for compressing material during additive manufacturing" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,714, issued on April 7, was assigned to Thermwood Corp. (Dale, Ind.).

"Methods and apparatus for compressing material during additive manufacturing" was invented by Kenneth J. Susnjara (Birdseye, Ind.) and Scott G. Vaal (Jasper, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing device and method for delivering a flowable material from a nozzle of a programmable computer numeric control (CNC) machine and compressing the flowable material with a compression roller. In one embodiment, the device includes a nozzle configured to deposit a flowable material on a surface; and a roller configured to compress the deposited flowabl...