US Patent Issued to MANTLE on March 25 for "Waste collection and abatement during hybrid additive and subtractive manufacturing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,659, issued on March 25, was assigned to MANTLE INC. (San Francisco).

"Waste collection and abatement during hybrid additive and subtractive manufacturing" was invented by Stephen T. Connor (San Francisco), Fabio Zurcher (San Francisco), Brad Eaton (San Francisco) and Matthew McKay (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for controlling waste material during a hybrid subtractive and additive manufacturing process is disclosed, including a machining tool held in a holder, a shroud disposed around the machining tool, and one or more ports configured to create a negative pressure within the shroud. A method of con...