US Patent Issued to Hexagon Technology Center on May 6 for "Systems and methods for removing a support structure in subtractive machining" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,857, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hexagon Technology Center Gmbh (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for removing a support structure in subtractive machining" was invented by Clement Girard (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods including an additive component; a subtractive component; and a processor configured to: receive a contact line associated with a support structure from the additive component; receive geometry associated with an orientation from the additive component; receive data associated with a tool from the subtractive component; generate a subtractive tool path based on th...