US Patent Issued to MARKFORGED on Nov. 18 for "Anchors and skirts to reduce part warping" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,695, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MARKFORGED INC (Waltham, Mass.).

"Anchors and skirts to reduce part warping" was invented by Nicholas Kalweit (Cambridge, Mass.), Corey Hazeltine Walsh (Belmont, Mass.), Harrison Davis (Boston), Vinay Francis Rodrigues (Watertown, Mass.) and Agamemnon Despopoulos (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of reducing warping of a printed part are disclosed. The method includes depositing a raft comprising a first printable material onto a build platen of a three-dimensional printer. The method includes depositing a support material comprising a second printable material onto the r...