US Patent Issued to Glowforge on April 29 for "Multi-user computer-numerically-controlled machine" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,617, issued on April 29, was assigned to Glowforge Inc. (Seattle).

"Multi-user computer-numerically-controlled machine" was invented by Daniel Shapiro (Mercer Island, Wash.), Mark Gosselin (Seattle), Anthony Wright (Seattle), Scott Haug (Seattle) and Linden Wright (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for accessing a computer-numerically-controlled machine can include receiving a command to be executed by the computer-numerically-controlled machine. A hardware state of a component in the computer-numerically-controlled machine can be determined by receiving, from the component, data indicative of the hardware state. An orig...