US Patent Issued to KOBE STEEL on May 13 for "Additive manufacturing method, additive manufacturing device, and controller" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,414, issued on May 13, was assigned to KOBE STEEL LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Additive manufacturing method, additive manufacturing device, and controller" was invented by Tatsuya Fujii (Hyogo, Japan), Masatoshi Hida (Hyogo, Japan) and Shuo Huang (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In preparing a built-up object by depositing beads, in a step of dividing into the bead model, a trapezoidal bead model a cross section of which is a trapezoidal shape is applied to a position where the bead is formed in a portion not adjacent to an existing bead, and a parallelogram bead model a cross section of which is a parallelogram is applied to a...