ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,362, issued on May 13, was assigned to MATERIALISE N.V. (Leuven, Belgium).

"System and methods for predicting overheating for additive manufacturing using simulation" was invented by Yogesh Sovani (Leuven, Belgium) and Manuel Michiels (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for predicting locations of overheating of one or more objects for build of the one or more objects by additive manufacturing using simulation. A method includes simulating temperature of an object as a function of spatial location during a layer by layer build using powder based additive manufacturing comprising determining a temperatu...