US Patent Issued to MANTLE on Oct. 14 for "Undesirable void identification and correction in 3D printing" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,064, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MANTLE INC. (San Francisco).

"Undesirable void identification and correction in 3D printing" was invented by Stephen T. Connor (San Francisco), Nilesh Dixit (San Ramon, Calif.) and Ivan Ionov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for, and method of, printing a three-dimensional (3D) object are presented. The techniques can include obtaining a three-dimensional virtual representation of the object; obtaining first and second 3D printing strategies; obtaining first and second virtual extrusion renderings, wherein the virtual extrusion renderings corresponds to first and second toolpaths...