ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,580, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).
"Manufacturing method and apparatus" was invented by Colin Ray Bulled (Crediton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an article, including using coordinate measuring machine both to obtain three-dimensional point coordinate measurements of first part of article in place and to position a second part of article in predetermined spatial relationship relative to first part in dependence upon measurements of first part. Predetermined spatial relationship is defined in more than three degrees of freedom. Positioning ...