US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for point-of-need manufacturing" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,666, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for point-of-need manufacturing" was invented by David Dean (Columbus, Ohio), Glenn Daehn (Columbus, Ohio), Michael Groeber (Columbus, Ohio) and Stephen Niezgoda (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to manufacture a custom repair or replacement part at the location in which the repair/replacement will be performed. Scans are performed to determine a wear pattern and topology of the location where the replacement part is to be placed and manufacturing instructions are generated to ...