ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,545, issued on June 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Three-dimensional printing using configurable movement tracks" was invented by Mauro Marzorati (Lutz, Fla.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Randy A. Rendahl (Raleigh, N.C.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer-implemented method that includes receiving, using a processor, data representing a 3D physical object by a processing device, and controlling, using the processor, a 3D printing device to apply successive layers of a material by a printing he...