This week in patents: 3D printed airplanes, Ford’s self-driving cars, and more
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on May 23, 2016
at 11:57 am
Last week, the US patent office issued 6,754 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all six thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the six most interesting patents. Printing board passes is one thing… Soon it’ll be the whole plane Patent Number – US 20160136891 That 3D printing can create complex shapes including small aircraft parts is well known. But it may have seemed far fetched to think of the possibility of printing out an entire aircraft. Now, Airbus has invented a way to 3D print parts like fuselage, wings and door…
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