ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,173, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MAKEBLOCK Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Object positioning method, machining method, apparatus, device, and medium" was invented by Zuoliang Zhao (Guangdong, China) and Liji Diao (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object positioning method provided in the present disclosure includes obtaining an initial image of a machining region when a to-be-machined object is placed in the machining region; recognizing the position marking point and the height marking point contained in the initial image; and recognizing a size of the to-be-machined object and a position of the to-be-machine...