US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on April 7 for "Additive manufacturing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,627, issued on April 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Additive manufacturing system" was invented by Shun Kayashima (Tokyo), Nobuyuki Sumi (Tokyo) and Seiji Uozumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: an image analysis unit that acquires an image of a molten pool formed on a workpiece and information on a progress direction of a machining point on the workpiece, and obtains an end point of the molten pool; and a molten pool information calculation unit that calculates a center position and a width of the molten pool using position information on the end point. An ad...