ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,418, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Adaptive additive manufacturing for value chain networks" was invented by Charles H. Cella (Pembroke, Mass.), Brent Bliven (Austin, Texas), Kunal Sharma (Mumbai, India) and Teymour S. El-Tahry (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information technology system for a distributed manufacturing network includes an additive manufacturing management platform configured to manage process and production workflows for a set of distributed manufacturing network entities through design, modeling, printing, and supply chain stages. The infor...