ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,300, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Formlabs Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for collecting and analyzing additive fabrication process results of an additive fabrication device" was invented by Edward Tekeian (Cambridge, Mass.), Benjamin FrantzDale (Harvard, Mass.), Jacob A. Misra (Somerville, Mass.) and Kyle P. McNulty (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described to gather information from an end user relating to fabrication process failures in a standardized manner. This information may be provided to an additive fabrication device manufacturer and analyzed by the manufacturer. Analys...