US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on March 24 for "Systems and methods for dynamic additive manufacturing welding program planning" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,045, issued on March 24, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc..

"Systems and methods for dynamic additive manufacturing welding program planning" was invented by Shuang Liu (Appleton, Wis.) and Dustin Wagner (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a welding system configured to perform additive manufacturing, particularly by employing an additive manufacturing tool to build up a part by employing welding-type programs. In some examples, control circuitry controls the additive manufacturing tool to operate in a first welding-type program of a plurality of welding-type programs in response to a determination tha...