US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor, Yamazaki Mazak on Oct. 20 for "Laminate shaping method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,623, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corp. (Tokyo) and Yamazaki Mazak Corp. (Aichi, Japan).

"Laminate shaping method" was invented by Yasunori Sakai (Hiroshima, Japan), Daisuke Yamauchi (Hiroshima, Japan), Naoya Hayashida (Hiroshima, Japan), Kazuhiro Ishibashi (Aichi, Japan), Yasuyuki Tanaka (Aichi, Japan), Atsushi Suzuki (Aichi, Japan) and Seigo Ouchi (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminate shaping method includes: a unit step repeatedly performed, the unit step including a step of forming a laminate shaped portion by laminating metal layers formed of weld beads, and a step o...