ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,693, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).
"Additive manufacturing-coupled digital twin ecosystem" was invented by Stephen Jonathan Davis (Eastleigh, Great Britain) and Jonathan Mark Dunsdon (Murphys, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided methods and systems for making or repairing a specified part. For example, there is provided a method for creating an optimized manufacturing process to make or repair the specified part. The method includes receiving by a system configured to make or repair the specified part and from a machine communicatively coupled with the system, a set ...