ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,937, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Measurement device, additive manufacturing system, and cutting machining system" was invented by Shigenobu Asada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement device includes: a sensor that acquires image information by imaging an object targeted for addition of materials or cutting; a measurement unit that acquires measurement data by measuring the shape of the object on the basis of the image information, the measurement data representing a shape of the object; a missing region detecting unit that detects a missing region of the object; a measurement ...