ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,420, issued on March 25, was assigned to LAYERWISE NV (Leuven, Belgium).
"Three dimensional printing system with speed optimized vector processing system" was invented by Sam Coeck (Boutersem, Belgium), Jonas Van Vaerenbergh (Sint-Niklaas, Belgium) and Nachiketa Ray (Leuven, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional (3D) printing system includes a print engine and a controller. The print engine includes a motorized build platform, a coating apparatus, and a beam forming unit. The controller is configured to perform the following steps: (a) receiving a virtual 3D body, (b) processing the 3D body to define a plurality...