US Patent Issued to Thermwood on April 8 for "Systems and methods for printing components using additive manufacturing" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,213, issued on April 8, was assigned to Thermwood Corp. (Dale, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for printing components using additive manufacturing" was invented by Kenneth J. Susnjara (Birdseye, Ind.), Scott G. Vaal (Jasper, Ind.) and Nicolas C. Vote (Newburgh, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a part using additive manufacturing may include receiving, at a computer numeric controlled (CNC) machine, a computer aided design (CAD) model of the part. The method may further include dividing the CAD model into plurality of sections. The method may further include slicing each of the plurality of sections into a pluralit...