ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,848, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Mantle Inc. (San Francisco).
"Method and system for automated toolpath generation" was invented by Stephen T. Connor (San Francisco), Alex S. Goldenberg (San Francisco), Jonathan Hsu (San Francisco), Benjamin D. Voiles (San Francisco) and Theodore C. Sorom (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for facilitating part fabrication, such as by automated toolpath generation, can include one or more of: receiving a virtual part; modifying the virtual part; and/or determining toolpaths to fabricate the target part. The toolpaths preferably define an ordered series of additive and sub...