ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,231, issued on March 24, was assigned to STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Digital-twin-enabled artificial intelligence system for distributed additive manufacturing" was invented by Charles Howard Cella (Pembroke, Mass.), Brent Bliven (Austin, Texas) and Kunal Sharma (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information technology system for a distributed manufacturing network includes an additive manufacturing platform configured to manage workflows for a set of distributed manufacturing network entities associated with the distributed manufacturing network. The information technology system incl...