ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,980, issued on April 21, was assigned to United Grinding Group Management AG (Bern, Switzerland).

"Manufacturing assistance system for an additive manufacturing system" was invented by Kai Gutknecht (Uznach, Switzerland) and Pascal Brunner (Hosenruck, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a manufacturing assistance system for an additive manufacturing system, an additive manufacturing system comprising such manufacturing assistance system, a method for operating such manufacturing assistance system and a computer program element for such manufacturing assistance system. The manufacturing assista...