US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Automated additive manufacturing production systems and methods" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,439, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Automated additive manufacturing production systems and methods" was invented by Hadi Atwi (Dearborn, Mich.) and Richard Moore (Fenton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated additive manufacturing production (AAMP) system includes one or more AAMP system stations disposed in an environment and configured to perform one or more AAMP routines, where each AAMP system station from among the one or more AAMP system stations includes a door. The AAMP system includes one or more robots configured to autonomously travel within the environment a...