ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,724, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Three-dimensional shaping method and three-dimensional shaping apparatus" was invented by Tatsuya Okunaka (Wako, Japan), Haruka Ito (Wako, Japan) and Mai Yokoi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a three-dimensional shaping method and a three-dimensional shaping apparatus, a shaping path of each of a plurality of layers includes an inner shaping path and outer shaping path for shaping an inner wall portion and outer wall portion that surround a space and are adjacent in an inward-outward direction. The progression directions of the inner shaping path ...