US Patent Issued to Continuous Composites on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for controlling additive manufacturing" (Utah, Idaho, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,488, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Continuous Composites Inc. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho).

"Systems and methods for controlling additive manufacturing" was invented by Mikel Negugogor (Logan, Utah), Logan Lalonde (Post Falls, Idaho) and Rachael Kathleen Morris (Greenacres, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and associated systems and apparatus are disclosed for determining a tool path for use in additively manufacturing a structure. The methods may include identifying a propagation surface onto which material forming at least part of the structure is to be deposited, and determining a structure boundary associated with th...