ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,374, issued on June 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Performing corrective actions during three-dimensional printing jobs" was invented by Manoj Kumar Goyal (Karnataka, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Raghuveer Prasad Nagar (Rajasthan, India) and Manjit Singh Sodhi (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system performs corrective operations during a three-dimensional (3D) printing job. The 3D printing job is initiated to produce a physical object. Printing of the physical object is monitored to identify a defect of the physical object during the printing. Th...