ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,877, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Determining respective positions for elongate members" was invented by Alberto Maria Canals Pou (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Marc Casalprim Torres (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Calibration data is obtained relating to a printed thickness of an elongate member as a function of position within a container for containing a print medium in an additive manufacturing printer. An object model is obtained representing an object to be printed, the object having elongate members. A position of the object to be pri...