US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 3 for "Additive manufacturing model assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,618, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Additive manufacturing model assembly" was invented by Tsuneo Endo (Saitama, Japan) and Yuta Kurosawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing model assembly includes: an additive manufacturing model formed by additive manufacturing in which laminated metal powder is melted; and a metal non-additive manufacturing model formed by a method different from the additive manufacturing, the additive manufacturing model assembly is configured by assembling the additive manufacturing model and the non-additive manufacturing model, the additive...