US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 22 for "Real-time reconfiguration of additive manufacturing" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,316, issued on April 22, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Real-time reconfiguration of additive manufacturing" was invented by Amadou Ba (Navan, Ireland), Ambrish Rawat (Dublin) and Joern Ploennigs (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for additive manufacturing includes identifying a discrepancy between a three-dimensional model and an object model. The three-dimensional model is a model of a three-dimensional object that is being constructed by an additive manufacturing process, and the three-dimensional object is being constructed based on the object model. The method further includes...