ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,290, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).
"System and method for developing a numerical control manufacturing program" was invented by Changsheng Guo (South Windsor, Conn.), Clement Drouin Laberge (Terrebonne, Canada) and Joel Jean (Shannon, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for developing a numerical control manufacturing program for a common geometric feature of a first component includes obtaining manufacturing process data for the common geometric feature. The manufacturing process data is associated with one or more numerical control manufacturing processes for the com...