ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,374, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to PROCADA AB (Trollhattan, Sweden).
"Conductance based control system for additive manufacturing" was invented by Almir Heralic (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Petter Hagqvist (Trollhattan, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for regulating an additive manufacturing process of an additive manufacturing apparatus, the apparatus configured to add metal to a substrate by means of metal deposition. The apparatus comprises: a nozzle for output of a metal strip, the nozzle configured to be arranged at a distance from the substrate, and configured to move relative the substrate in XYZ-axes via...