ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,847, issued on June 23, was assigned to GIMAC DI MACCAGNAN GIORGIO (Castronno, Italy).

"System for additive manufacturing processes and related control method" was invented by Simone Maccagnan (Castronno, Italy), Giorgio Maccagnan (Castronno, Italy), Nicola Pedrocchi (Castronno, Italy), Luca Cevasco (Castronno, Italy) and Paolo Magnoni (Castronno, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for additive manufacturing processes includes an anthropomorphic robot, an extruder mounted on the robot, sensors for detecting a plurality of parameters related to an additive manufacturing process, means for regulating the state of a material ...