US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on July 22 for "Computing device and computing method for evaluating strength of article formed by 3D printer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,572, issued on July 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Computing device and computing method for evaluating strength of article formed by 3D printer" was invented by Shunsuke Taba (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Miura (Tokyo) and Takayuki Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes: a tomographic image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of tomographic images representing shapes of reinforcing fibers and shapes of resin in a plurality of cross sections obtained when an article containing the reinforcing fibers and the resin is divided in parallel; and a computing unit that calculates...