ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,063, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Three-dimensional print data generation method, and manufacturing method for three-dimensional fabricated product" was invented by Shu Hamada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional print data generation method is capable of matching the number of layers and/or size of slice data. Three-dimensional interpolation shape data is generated by interpolating a three-dimensional interpolation shape on three-dimensional shape data having a plurality of three-dimensional shapes composed of different materials. The three-dimensional ...