US Patent Issued to Autodesk on Dec. 9 for "Process-aware additive computer aided manufacturing" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,684, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Process-aware additive computer aided manufacturing" was invented by Yedige Tlegenov (London) and Klaus Gibbe (Gelnhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing instructions for printing of 3D objects. One of the methods includes obtaining i) information regarding one or more geometric features of a 3D model of an object to be printed by an extrusion-based 3D printer and ii) process parameters for use in printing; generating, by the computer-aided manufact...