ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,164, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hasbro Inc. (Pawtucket, R.I.).

"Toy figure manufacturing" was invented by Stanley Chan (Tai Koo, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet printing system includes: a production apparatus configured to receive an original body template and to produce a three-dimensional body based on the original body template; a metrology apparatus configured to receive the produced three-dimensional body from the production apparatus and to topographically scan the received three-dimensional body to thereby produce an updated body template of the three-dimensional body; a control apparatus in communica...