ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,280, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Computer implemented method for generating thermally improved machine control data for additive manufacturing machines" was invented by Konstantin Schubert (Hamburg, Germany) and Jorne Driezen (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating improved machine control data. Event series is generated from input machine control data that is linked with a mesh data that is also generated from the input machine control data. Thus, an activation time (t_act) is determined which indicates the point in time at which the additive manufac...