ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,197, issued on June 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic computer-based management of additive manufacturing" was invented by Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Uri Kartoun (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to improve additive manufacturing embodiments receive, by a sensor set, data associated with an object or a predetermined area, and retrieve, by a knowledge corpus, historic data associated with the object or the predetermined area. Further, embodiments identify a defect on or within...