ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,243, issued on March 24, was assigned to Genesee Valley Innovations LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Modifying additively manufactured part designs using topological analyses" was invented by Morad Behandish (Mountain View, Calif.) and Saigopal Nelaturi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Set differences between an as-designed and an as-manufactured model are computed. Topological deviations between the as-designed model and the as-manufactured model are determined based under-deposition and over-deposition features of the set differences. Based on the discrepancies, an input to a manufacturing instrument is changed to ...