US Patent Issued to DMG MORI on Sept. 22 for "Additive and subtractive manufacturing machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,322, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).

"Additive and subtractive manufacturing machine" was invented by Takeshi Otawa (Nara, Japan) and Syuichi Nishi (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing machine includes a splash guard that defines and forms a processing area, a tool spindle that is movable in a Z-axis direction and a Y-axis direction inside the processing area, an additive-manufacturing head connected to the tool spindle, and a line body that extends from the additive-manufacturing head, is drawn from an inside of the processing area to an outside, and supplies material powder ...