US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 30 for "System and method for the additive manufacture of components" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,723, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for the additive manufacture of components" was invented by Thomas Baranowski (Wurselen, Germany), Maik Broda (Wurselen, Germany), Markus Franzen (Stolberg, Germany) and Pascal Rebmann (Weilerswist, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes at least one electronic controller configured to generate machine code based on a predetermined component geometry associated with a component and at least one printing device. The system includes a comparison system comprising at least one recording device configured to reco...