US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY on Sept. 22 for "Bead width manipulation and control for additive construction operations" (Minnesota, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,071, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Alexandria, Va.).

"Bead width manipulation and control for additive construction operations" was invented by Kurtis A. Kuipers (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Andrew A. Alleyne (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an additive construction method includes printing a calibration print out of a cement-based material using a 3D printer having a pump to pump the cement-based material and having a gantry operating at a gantry feed rate under control of an additive manufacturing software to dispense the cement-b...