US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 1 for "Free-form production based on causal predictive models" (New York, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,834, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Free-form production based on causal predictive models" was invented by Lior Horesh (North Salem, N.Y.), Chai W. Wu (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Ramesh Natarajan (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Raya Horesh (North Salem, N.Y.), David Nahamoo (Great Neck, N.Y.), Christopher Wildsmith (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Michael Widman (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining control inputs to a manufacturing apparatus to manufacture a product are described. A processor may receive model data including initial state data i...