US Patent Issued to NUtech Ventures on July 29 for "Thermal modeling of additive manufacturing using graph theory" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,616, issued on July 29, was assigned to NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Neb.).

"Thermal modeling of additive manufacturing using graph theory" was invented by Jordan Severson (Lincoln, Neb.), Prahalada Rao (Lincoln, Neb.), Reza Yavari (Lincoln, Neb.) and Kevin D. Cole (Lincoln, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for an additive manufacturing heat transfer simulation. For example, an additive manufacturing heat transfer simulation system converts a model of an object into a node representation of the object, and generates a network graph of t...