ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,537, issued on May 13, was assigned to spherene AG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Method for the lightweighting and/or designing of an additively manufactured article" was invented by Christian Waldvogel (Zurich) and Ralph Bartschi (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for the lightweighting and/or designing of an additively manufactured article. The disclosure further relates to a computer program product adapted for executing the method of the present disclosure as well as an additively manufactured article obtainable by the method according to the present disclosure. The method includes the ste...