US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Feb. 10 for "System and method for maintaining build quality in additive manufacturing by compensation of environmental effects" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,144, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"System and method for maintaining build quality in additive manufacturing by compensation of environmental effects" was invented by Scott Ziv (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Michael Ziv (Spotsylvania, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments provide an additive manufacturing (AM) compensation system comprising a sensor suite, a controller unit, and an AM device. The sensor suite may be configured to measure ambient conditions through the use of at least one sensing element. The controller unit may be ...