ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,231, issued on June 17, was assigned to Glowforge Inc. (Seattle).
"Cloud controlled laser fabrication" was invented by Daniel Shapiro (Mercer Island, Wash.), Mark Gosselin (Seattle), Anthony Wright (Seattle), Dean Putney (Seattle), Timothy Ellis (Everett, Wash.) and Lauren Banka (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An execution plan segment of an execution plan can be received at a control unit of a computer numerically controlled machine from a general purpose computer. The execution plan segment can define operations for causing movement of a moveable head of the computer numerically controlled machine to deliver electromagnetic...