US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on May 27 for "3D printing apparatus, 3D printing method, and machine learning device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,465, issued on May 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"3D printing apparatus, 3D printing method, and machine learning device" was invented by Nobuhiro Shinohara (Tokyo) and Daiji Morita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machining program generation device that generates a machining program for controlling a 3D printing apparatus to form an object by stacking a plurality of layers, includes: a machining route generation unit that extracts a plurality of support points that are based on an end point, an intersection point, and a bending point of the machining path from machining path data indicating a shape a...