ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,382, issued on March 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Additive manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Shigeru Takushima (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kawano (Tokyo), Yoshitsugu Sawa (Tokyo) and Daiji Morita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing apparatus is an additive manufacturing apparatus that performs an additive manufacturing process by depositing a molten fabrication material at a working position while moving the working position on a workpiece, and forms a manufactured product by repeating the additive manufacturing process. The apparatus includes a height measurement unit that outputs...