ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,005, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Siemens Corp. (Washington).

"Systems and methods for reducing carbon dioxide emissions using trusted on-demand distributed manufacturing" was invented by Teri Hamlin (Granbury, Texas), Gregory Bowman (Lorton, Va.), Barbara Humpton (Arlington, Va.), Joseph Bonnin (Charlotte, N.C.) and Alastair Orchard (Genua, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (100) for reducing carbon dioxide emissions using trusted on-demand distributed manufacturing, with a processor (102) and a memory (104), includes a first interface (120) configured to receive product data from a product data source (110-A, 110-...