ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,445, issued on May 27, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).
"Modular additive manufacturing method" was invented by Janos Szijarto (Finspong, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of interconnected products manufactured using additive manufacturing or 3D printing, wherein at least 50% of the products of the plurality of products are connected by a breakable connection to at least one neighboring product of the plurality of products, wherein the breakable connection is adapted to be broken apart by a tool adapted to apply force on at least one side of at least two products. A method, tool,...