ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,040, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).
"Hybrid additive and subtractive manufacturing" was invented by Lee Sanders (Tamworth, Great Britain), Robert Bowerman (Oxford, Great Britain) and Kelvin Samuel Allan Hamilton (South Holland, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design and manufacture of physical structures using hybrid additive and subtractive manufacturing include, in one aspect, a method including: obtaining data for 3D geometry of a part; simulating at least a portion of a manufacturing ...