US Patent Issued to Thermwood on April 21 for "Methods and apparatus for compensating for material distortion during additive manufacturing" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,883, issued on April 21, was assigned to Thermwood Corp. (Dale, Ind.).

"Methods and apparatus for compensating for material distortion during additive manufacturing" was invented by Kenneth J. Susnjara (Birdseye, Ind.) and Scott G. Vaal (Jasper, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are drawn to additive manufacturing methods. An exemplary method may include generating a tool path for forming a component via additive manufacturing, and assessing the tool path to identify a change in direction. The method may also include determining if the change in direction exceeds a predetermined angle, and add...