US Patent Issued to KOBE STEEL on Oct. 27 for "Method for preparing lamination plan" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,745, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to KOBE STEEL LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Method for preparing lamination plan" was invented by Shuo Huang (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deposition planning method for an additively manufactured object includes: acquiring shape data; determining a welding path of each layer by slicing a three-dimensional shape of the additively manufactured object into layers; classifying a plurality of welding paths into intersection region paths and constant region paths; dividing the intersection region paths into a lower layer path and an upper layer path of an intersection portion; and determining w...