US Patent Issued to Renishaw on Dec. 30 for "Machine control for additive manufacturing process and apparatus" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,773, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).

"Machine control for additive manufacturing process and apparatus" was invented by Ramkumar Revanur (Stafford, Great Britain) and Ceri Brown (Redland, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method controls an additive manufacturing apparatus, in which an object is built by consolidating material in a layer-by-layer manner. The method includes receiving commands to be executed by the additive manufacturing apparatus to cause the additive manufacturing apparatus to carry out a build of an object, wherein each command includes an identifier ...