US Patent Issued to Sodick on June 24 for "Method for preparing additive manufacturing program, method for additive manufacturing, and additive manufacturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,386, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sodick Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Method for preparing additive manufacturing program, method for additive manufacturing, and additive manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Yasuyuki Miyashita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing an additive manufacturing program includes a loading step, a dividing step, an overhang calculating step, a subdividing step, a maintaining step, and an outputting step. In the loading step, a three-dimensional model is loaded. In the dividing step, the three-dimensional model is divided into divided layers. In the overhang calcula...