US Patent Issued to MATERIALISE on May 20 for "System and method for data management and security for digital manufacturing" (California, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,981, issued on May 20, was assigned to MATERIALISE N.V. (Leuven, Belgium).

"System and method for data management and security for digital manufacturing" was invented by Chris Adkins (Lexington, Ky.), Joseph Inkenbrandt (San Francisco) and Stephan Thomas (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for providing secure delivery, transport, modification, exchange of digital design and build files that have been bundled into a digital asset within a complex digital supply chain. The system also provides for quality standards when the digital asset is used to manufacture a physical part, and provides for secur...