US Patent Issued to Canon on May 27 for "Forming control apparatus, and method and storage medium therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,608, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Forming control apparatus, and method and storage medium therefor" was invented by Kotaro Matsuda (Kawasaki, Japan) and Takeshi Ishikura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments of the present invention control a forming unit of a 3D printer so as to additionally form a second object in a free space in the forming unit when receiving an instruction to form the second object and forming data in the middle of a forming process for a first object by the forming unit."

The patent was filed on Jan. 4, 2023, under Application No. 18/149,871.

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