ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,006, issued on June 3, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Control systems for additive manufacturing and associated methods" was invented by Paramjot Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Joanne L. Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Viswanath Meenakshisundaram (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for manufacturing objects are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for producing an additively manufactured object includes applying energy to a curable material according to a set of print parameters to form a cured material layer on a build platform or on an object on the build platform. The ...