US Patent Issued to JABIL on Nov. 25 for "Apparatus, system, and method for blockchain tracking of spooled additive manufacturing print material" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,163, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to JABIL INC..

"Apparatus, system, and method for blockchain tracking of spooled additive manufacturing print material" was invented by Jonathan M. Darcy (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Luke Rodgers (St. Petersburg, Fla.), John Dulchinos (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Kyle Cheung (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Brian Yates (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems and methods to track use of print filament wound on a print spool on a printer in an additive manufacturing print. Included are: a readable identifier associated with the print spool; a network connection between the at least...