US Patent Issued to Hypertherm on Feb. 10 for "Generating optimized tool paths and machine commands for beam cutting tools" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,147, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hypertherm Inc. (Hanover, N.H.).

"Generating optimized tool paths and machine commands for beam cutting tools" was invented by Axel H. Henning (Black Diamond, Wash.), James M. O'Connor (Bellevue, Wash.) and Carl Olsen (Vashon, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for automated modelling of the cutting process for a particular material to be cut by a beam cutting tool, such as a waterjet cutting system, from empirical data to predict aspects of the waterjet's effect on the workpiece across a range of material thicknesses, across a range of cutting geometries, and across a range of cut...