ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,358, issued on May 13, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and Concept Laser GmbH (Lichtenfels, Germany).
"Additive manufacturing simulations" was invented by Eric Allen Ott (Cincinnati), Johannes Stroessner (Schwarzenbach an der Saale, Germany), Manuel Acosta (Blue Ash, Ohio), Peter Appel (Bamberg, Germany) and Hongqing Sun (Belmont, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of simulating additively manufacturing an object may include generating a simulated additively manufactured object based at least in part on a plurality of approximate consolidation domains that respectively correspond to a plurality of cons...