US Patent Issued to Gantri on March 4 for "Cylindrical coordinate 3D printer and methods of operation thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,173, issued on March 4, was assigned to Gantri Inc. (San Leandro, Calif.).

"Cylindrical coordinate 3D printer and methods of operation thereof" was invented by Christianna Elizabeth Taylor (Oakland, Calif.), Yi Yang (San Francisco), Puneet Bhumipal Jhaveri (Burlingame, Calif.), Noah Benjamin Novik Katz (San Francisco) and Jason Reyes Cortella (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are cylindrical-coordinate 3D printers and methods of 3D printing. In one embodiment, the cylindrical-coordinate 3D printer can comprise a printbed, a rotatable printbed support assembly, a vertically translatable base plate supporting the ...