ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,573, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Syddansk Universitet (Odense M, Denmark) and COBOD International A/S (Nordhavn, Denmark).

"Method and a system for collision avoidance of a 3D robotic concrete printer" was invented by Christian Schlette (Odense SO, Denmark) and Henrik Lund-Nielsen (Nordhavn, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a system and a method for collision avoidance of a 3D robotic concrete printer, whereby the method comprises the steps of performing an application and/or manipulation process by executing instructions, such as based on G-Code, with a 3D robotic concrete printer by moving ...