ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,423, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Parallelized additive manufacturing" was invented by Mauro Marzorati (Lutz, Fla.), Faith Opiyo (Nieuw Vennep, Netherlands), Vinod A. Valecha (Pune, India) and Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for parallel additive manufacturing includes receiving a three-dimensional digital model file of an object for construction utilizing multiple additive manufacturing devices. The method also includes determining a decomposition of the three-dimensional digital model file of the object into multiple portions and...