ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,004, issued on March 3, was assigned to ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Sheffield, Great Britain).
"Additive manufacturing" was invented by Joseph Gwilliam Crabtree (Sheffield, Great Britain), Konstantin Rybalcenko (Sheffield, Great Britain) and Andre Gaio (Sheffield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system (100) for automatically processing an additively manufactured part. The system comprises an inspection module (120) for determining at least one part parameter associated with a surface finish quality of the part, a processing module (118) for processing a surface of the par...