US Patent Issued to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES on April 7 for "Autonomous fabrication of mechatronic systems" (Virginia, Missouri, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,725, issued on April 7, was assigned to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Autonomous fabrication of mechatronic systems" was invented by Tadeusz Kosmal (Falls Church, Va.), Kieran Beaumont (Reston, Va.), Eric Link (Vienna, Va.), Dalton Phillips (Columbia, Mo.), Conner Pulling (Norfolk, Va.), James Lowe (Reston, Va.), Christopher Williams (Blacksburg, Va.) and Joseph Kubalak (College, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous fabrication method and system are described. A multi-axis robotic arm having at least one end effector is provided, where the at least one end effector comprises an additive ma...