US 12,111,638 B2
Adaptive production system
Kevin Robert Czinger, Santa Monica, CA (US); Michael Thomas Kenworthy, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US); Lukas Philip Czinger, Santa Monica, CA (US); Jinbo Chen, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US); Antonio Bernerd Martinez, El Segundo, CA (US); Matthew Cooper Keller, Marina Del Rey, CA (US); and Alex James Hamade, Redondo Beach, CA (US)
Assigned to DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed by Divergent Technologies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/342,926.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/047,815, filed on Jul. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/037,555, filed on Jun. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0066426 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G05B 19/418 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/41805 (2013.01) [G05B 19/4183 (2013.01); G05B 19/4188 (2013.01); G05B 19/41885 (2013.01)] 69 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for manufacturing a product, comprising:
a design apparatus configured to receive input information, split a structure in at least one location so the structure is divided into a plurality of parts that can be printed and assembled together to form the product, and generate a design output based at least on the split of the structure; and
a monitoring apparatus,
wherein the monitoring apparatus monitors at least an assembly apparatus such that at least one material used by the assembly apparatus is provided to the assembly apparatus at a time prior to use of the at least one material in the assembly apparatus.