US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 27 for "3D printing with combination of additive printing and laser beam machining" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,598, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"3D printing with combination of additive printing and laser beam machining" was invented by Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Randy A. Rendahl (Raleigh, N.C.), Mauro Marzorati (Lutz, Fla.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for enhanced printing to manufacture 3D objects implement optimized utilization of additive printing and subtractive laser beam machining, enabling enhanced, efficient and effective manufacturing of 3D objects. Dynamically allocating the operations and the sequence...