ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,775, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Additive manufacturing method, additive manufacturing apparatus, and additive manufacturing system" was invented by Nobuhiro Shinohara (Tokyo) and Daiji Morita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing method includes a step of measuring a temperature of an object of processing or a shaping material and outputting temperature data, a step of correcting basic commands based on a basic processing program and the temperature data, and determining post-correction commands including a material supply command, a heat source supply unit command...