ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,710, issued on June 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Creating string-based force component from different directions during overhang three-dimensional printing" was invented by Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Girish Padmanabhan (Pune, India) and Ravindra Kumar Venkata Konatham (Visakhapatnam, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented string based force component creation method for a three-dimensional (3D) printer that interacts with a three-dimensional (3D) printer that is installed in a printing apparatus and that pri...